9. Understanding the Fear About Hormone Therapy and Breast Cancer With Dr. Wendy Wolfman

9. Understanding the Fear About Hormone Therapy and Breast Cancer With Dr. Wendy Wolfman

Renowned Canadian OB/GYN Dr. Wendy Wolfman discusses the 2002 Women's Health Initiative study whose results drastically and negatively altered the way doctors prescribed hormone therapy and the way women received menopause care for decades. Its findings seemed to link hormone therapy and breast cancer, or did it? Over 20 years since the study's results were released, the scientific and medical community have taken a closer look at what the study ACTUALLY found and has since come to very different conclusions. Unfortunately, the fears surrounding hormone therapy use have persisted, leaving millions of women suffering through menopause needlessly.

In this episode, Dr. Wolfman discusses the study and breaks down the important details that reveal a much more nuanced and positive outcome of the use of hormone therapy in menopause care. She also discusses why the fears and myths about breast cancer persist to this day among patients and doctors.

Dr. Wendy Wolfman leads The Menopause Clinic and Mature Women's Health Program at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. Together with the hospital's foundation arm, they are looking to expand this program to create the Centre for Mature Women's Health. It will address the entire spectrum of health challenges that women face as they age. For more information: https://www.maturewomenshealth.ca/ and https://www.mountsinai.on.ca/care/womens-unit/menopause-clinic. You can also find them on Instagram @sinaihealthfoundation.

Find Melissa Grelo on Instagram @MelissaGrelo and @AgingPowerfullyWithMG, or on her website AgingPowerfullyWithMelissaGrelo.com.

Find clips of the show on YouTube @MelissaGrelo.

Producer: Melissa Grelo

Technical Producer and Editor: Drew Garner

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74. From Lab to Life (Part 2): What You Need To Know About Cancer Diagnoses, Research and Care in Canada With Dr. Lillian Siu & Dr. Miyo Yamashita

74. From Lab to Life (Part 2): What You Need To Know About Cancer Diagnoses, Research and Care in Canada With Dr. Lillian Siu & Dr. Miyo Yamashita

Cancer is one of the most frightening diagnoses any of us can face — and yet, it’s also an area of medicine where progress is happening at an extraordinary pace.In honour of World Cancer Day, this epi...

5 Helmi 34min

74. From Lab to Life (Part 1): What You Need To Know About Cancer Diagnoses, Research and Care in Canada With Dr. Lillian Siu & Dr. Miyo Yamashita

74. From Lab to Life (Part 1): What You Need To Know About Cancer Diagnoses, Research and Care in Canada With Dr. Lillian Siu & Dr. Miyo Yamashita

Cancer is one of the most frightening diagnoses any of us can face — and yet, it’s also an area of medicine where progress is happening at an extraordinary pace. In honour of World Cancer Day, this ep...

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73. A Very Special Episode: My Parents on Shingles, Resilience, and Health in Their 80s

73. A Very Special Episode: My Parents on Shingles, Resilience, and Health in Their 80s

In this very special and personal episode of Aging Powerfully with Melissa Grelo, I’m joined by my parents, Claire and Frank Grelo, to talk about something I never expected to experience so close to h...

29 Tammi 32min

72. Jann Arden on Dementia, Alzheimer’s & Love in the Long Goodbye

72. Jann Arden on Dementia, Alzheimer’s & Love in the Long Goodbye

In this deeply personal episode of Aging Powerfully, I sit down with Jann Arden to talk about her family’s journey through dementia and Alzheimer’s disease — with both of her parents. Jann shares the ...

22 Tammi 54min

71. Oscar Winner Marcia Gay Harden on Alzheimer’s, Grief & the Love That Never Leaves

71. Oscar Winner Marcia Gay Harden on Alzheimer’s, Grief & the Love That Never Leaves

Academy Award–winning actress Marcia Gay Harden joins me on Aging Powerfully with Melissa Grelo for an intimate conversation about losing her mother to Alzheimer’s — and what it taught her about love,...

15 Tammi 17min

70. Alzheimer’s, the Menopausal Brain & Closing the Gender Gap in Science with Dr. Liisa Galea

70. Alzheimer’s, the Menopausal Brain & Closing the Gender Gap in Science with Dr. Liisa Galea

January is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month in Canada, and this episode tackles a critical — and often overlooked — reality: nearly two-thirds of Alzheimer’s diagnoses are in women.Melissa is joined by ret...

8 Tammi 1h

69. 2025 POWER (RE)PLAY + A Look Ahead to 2026

69. 2025 POWER (RE)PLAY + A Look Ahead to 2026

2025 was one of my busiest—and most meaningful—years yet. Thank you for being on this journey with me and for showing up week after week to learn, question, laugh, and age powerfully together.As we wr...

18 Joulu 202533min

POWER (RE)PLAY - Episode 13 - Hair Loss, Hormones & Hope with Dr. Renée A. Beach (originally aired March 28, 2024)

POWER (RE)PLAY - Episode 13 - Hair Loss, Hormones & Hope with Dr. Renée A. Beach (originally aired March 28, 2024)

In this episode of Aging Powerfully, Melissa digs into one of the most emotional (and common!) midlife topics: hair loss, with medical and cosmetic dermatologist, Dr. Renée A. Beach (@dermabeach). Fro...

11 Joulu 202547min

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