The Menopause Information Gap: Susan Dominus, New York Times

I think, as I said, it was just one part of it.

You know, Oprah was starting to talk about it.

Michelle Obama was starting to talk about it.

I think you talked about it first.

Not first, but first of those people, right?

But I guess what I was going to say is, oh, that's funny.

Well, what I was going to say is that, you know, I think some people think, look, in 10 years, epidemiologically, epidemiologically, there may indeed be a small uptick in breast cancer in women in this country.

Like, we don't really know.

But across the population, like, you would kind of expect to see it.

And I think people would still say, overall...

it might be worth it because so many fewer women are suffering on a day-to-day basis.

They're having fewer hip fractures.

They're not ending up in nursing homes.

They're having better sex lives.

And there are so many things that come with feeling generally okay day-to-day.

And by the way, when the WHI was studied, we didn't know if you got a breast cancer diagnosis, how that was going to look for you.

Nobody wants breast cancer, God forbid, but 90% of breast cancers are treatable.

So I think that the whole calculation is just very different right now.

Well, it's so interesting that you said that because I wanted to go back to what you had been saying about our relationship to risk.

How can we even understand our relationship to risk if we're not given risk and benefits,

right? That's

exactly right.

Very true.

Yes.

I'm like, I don't know how to make that choice between perhaps a chance of breast cancer, but knowing that 90% of breast cancers are treatable, this changes the fact that my day-to-day life could be so affected.