Cancer Survivors Network

Suzanne Sommers is on a very expensive monitoring program to ensure that her bioidentical HRT is not putting her body into an estrogen imbalance. I've had two practitioners, plus my medical oncolgist, tell me that this type of treatment for menopause is perfectly safe for me. Later, when I had my estrogen tested, one of the practitioners, who had said it was safe, looked at my results and said I was not a candidate and it was a good thing I hadn't started it. I had not pursued it because my naturopath said, "Absolutely not." Even though my tumors were not hormone sensitive, she said your body can change at any time and start producing hormone sensitive tumors. My gyn/onc said he had a patient who was in remission for 17 years. Her medical oncologist prescribed bioidentical HRT, and her cancer returned within a few months. Just seems a bit too risky, regardless of what some practitioners will tell you. There are a number of safe alternatives.