Tamsen
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405 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 25 May
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For 20 years, we were lost.
and kind of alone.
In 2002, a study called the Women's Health Initiative ran on every news outlet with one headline, hormone therapy causes increased risk of breast cancer.
Women stopped taking it literally overnight.
I talked to doctors who were practicing at the time that said usage dropped from like 40% to 4%, some crazy numbers.
Women were calling their offices saying, I'm flushing this down the toilet.
What did you give me?
I can't believe it.
And over 20 years, generation after generation went without treatment that could have helped them because of a study that was fundamentally misrepresented.
The average age of the women in that study, 63 years old, not perimenopausal women who are in their 40s and 50s.
And what never made the headlines is the fact that women in that same study who took estrogen only actually had a 23% decrease in breast cancer incidence.
That was the data.
That was just not the story anybody ran.
So I'm telling you all this because I want you to understand where the fear came from.
It didn't come from nowhere.
It didn't come from like we made it up.
It came because it was handed to us and it kept a lot of women all over the world, including me, from accessing tools that could have genuinely helped us or so we could have at least understood what was going on.
I wish I had started hormone therapy earlier.
First, I didn't even know it was an option.
And then when I found out it was, I was genuinely scared.
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