![]() ![]() Some women find that losing weight helps with menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes. Some women might want to try using non-hormonal medicines or other methods first to see if they help. If you are having trouble with menopause symptoms, such as hot flashes, talk to your doctor about ways other than PHT to help with specific symptoms. Relieving menopausal symptoms without hormone therapy Because of this, doctors generally do not recommend PHT if a woman was previously treated for breast cancer. But there have been concerns about women who have had breast cancer using PHT, because of the known link between estrogen levels and breast cancer growth.Ī well-designed clinical trial (the HABITS study) found that breast cancer survivors taking PHT were much more likely to develop a new or recurrent breast cancer (cancer that comes back after treatment) than women who were not taking these hormones. ![]() When women reach menopause, some choose to take PHT, which is made up of female hormones (estrogen, sometimes along with progesterone) to help reduce menopause symptoms. Can I take menopausal hormone therapy after breast cancer? Women who are past menopause might also get symptoms if they had to stop taking PHT when they were diagnosed with breast cancer. Some pre-menopausal women have menopause symptoms as a result of chemotherapy or from hormone therapy drugs used to treat breast cancer (such as tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors). This can happen naturally as women get older, but it can also be caused by some breast cancer treatments. Many women have menopause symptoms such as hot flashes after treatment for breast cancer. If you are bothered by menopause symptoms, talk to your doctor about ways to get relief. Taking post-menopausal hormone therapy (PHT), also called hormone replacement therapy (HRT), to help with menopause symptoms may not be safe for women who have had breast cancer. ![]()
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