# Menopausal symptoms from hormone receptor positive breast cancer treatment Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/bjgp-interviews-1317540/menopausal-symptoms-from-hormone-receptor-positive-breast-cancer-treatment Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/bjgp-interviews-1317540/menopausal-symptoms-from-hormone-receptor-positive-breast-cancer-treatment.md Podcast: [BJGP Interviews](https://stenobird.com/podcast/bjgp-interviews-1317540) Published: 2025-09-30T07:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://bjgplife.com/menopausal-symptoms-from-hormone-receptor-positive-breast-cancer-treatment Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2784b6f6-29da-4c26-8286-12fdaa28b0b3.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/bjgp-interviews-1317540/episodes/menopausal-symptoms-from-hormone-receptor-positive-breast-cancer-treatment Duration seconds: 1457 ## Resource Today, we’re speaking to Dr Sophie McGrath, Consultant Medical Oncologist based at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and at Kingston Hospital in London. Title of paper: Management of menopausal symptoms following treatment for hormone receptor positive breast cancer Available at: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2025.0264 This transcript was generated using AI and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Please be aware it may contain errors or omissions. Speaker A 00:00:00.800 - 00:01:11.660 Hello and welcome to BJJP Interviews. My name is Nada Khan and I'm one of the associate editors of the bjgp. Thanks for joining us today to listen to this podcast. In today's episode, we're speaking to Dr. Sophie McGrath, who is a consultant medical oncologist based at the Royal Morrison NHS Trust and at Kingston Hospital in London. We're here to talk about the recent analysis article that she and her colleagues have published here in the BJDP titled Management of Menopausal Symptoms Following Treatment for Hormone Receptor Positive Breast Cancer. And just to point out that these colleagues included not just medical oncologists, but also GPs and patients, which I think has really shaped this article and is one of the reasons why we wanted to highlight it here in the podcast. So, hi Sophie, thanks for meeting me to talk about this article, which I think touches on a really important topic in practice. But talk us through some of the initial side effects that you discuss in the introduction here. Just in terms of hormone positive breast cancer, what kind of symptoms do women experience generally as a result of endocrine therapy? Speaker B 00:01:12.220 - 00:02:32.900 So, yeah, thanks very much for asking. And it's a bit of a broad answer that I would give. I mean, I've focused on, or we… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/bjgp-interviews-1317540/episodes/menopausal-symptoms-from-hormone-receptor-positive-breast-cancer-treatment/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/bjgp-interviews-1317540/menopausal-symptoms-from-hormone-receptor-positive-breast-cancer-treatment.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.