{"id":2831,"date":"2021-11-30T10:35:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T10:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/?post_type=menopauselibrary&#038;p=2831"},"modified":"2024-02-28T15:13:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:13:25","slug":"making-decisions-about-cancer-treatment-and-the-importance-of-quality-of-life-with-steve-payne","status":"publish","type":"menopauselibrary","link":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/menopause-library\/making-decisions-about-cancer-treatment-and-the-importance-of-quality-of-life-with-steve-payne\/","title":{"rendered":"Making decisions about cancer treatment and the importance of quality of life with Steve Payne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"128 - Making decisions about cancer treatment and the importance of quality of life with Steve Payne\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=j2bqt-113e76e-pb&amp;from=embed&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;skin=f6f6f6&amp;btn-skin=1b1b1b&amp;size=150\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode, Dr Louise Newson is joined by a long-time friend, retired consultant urologist, Steve Payne. Together they discuss Steve and his wife Jan\u2019s experience of her breast cancer and subsequent treatment that led to estrogen depletion. Steve describes the decision-making process they went through as a couple when Jan\u2019s quality of life deteriorated due to severe urine and kidney infections, as well as other symptoms relating to a lack of estrogen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The experts talk about how some people\u2019s experience in cancer care clinics can fall short of patients and their partners being given full and balanced information into how cancer treatments will affect your hormones and what this potentially means for your quality of life. Steve shares his honest reflections and insights about cancer care clinics and offers invaluable advice for those navigating these complex and confusing decisions at such a difficult time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve\u2019s advice for making decisions about cancer treatments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ask what the benefits, and especially the downsides, of the treatment are. It is key that you understand&nbsp;<strong>all<\/strong>&nbsp;the pros and cons of a treatment being recommended to you.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If it\u2019s treatment for cancer, ask about the pure cancer survival rates \u2013 once deaths from other causes have been removed from the data \u2013 to make sure you know the actual level of survival benefit that the suggested treatment offers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you\u2019re having side effects from breast cancer treatment due to a lack of estrogen, have a discussion about the pros and cons of taking HRT, for your particular type of cancer. Ask how taking HRT could improve your daily life and wellbeing and what benefits HRT offers for bone and heart health in the future. Ask how would taking HRT affect your pure cancer survival rate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve has written more about his and Jan\u2019s experience and offers practical advice&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/menopause-library\/making-decisions-about-treatments-during-cancer-care-questions-for-informed-choices\/\">here<\/a>, along with a new factsheet about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/balance-menopause.com\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Making-decisions-about-treatments-during-cancer-care-2.pdf\">making informed decisions during cancer care<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Dr Louise Newson is joined by a long-time friend, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6706,"template":"","subject":[147,36],"content-type":[17],"library-format":[14],"library-author":[],"class_list":["post-2831","menopauselibrary","type-menopauselibrary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-breast-cancer","subject-cancer","content-type-podcast","library-format-listen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/menopauselibrary\/2831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/menopauselibrary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/menopauselibrary"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"library-format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library-format?post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"library-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library-author?post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}