A medical oncologist who kept asking what happens after survival.
I’m Dr. Linda Bosserman, a medical oncologist and PhD clinical sexologist. For 40 years I’ve cared for women with breast and other cancers and watched how our fear of hormones has harmed their quality of life.
CHOICES stands for Cancer Therapies and Hormone Options for Informed, Collaborative, Evidence-Based Shared Decision-Making.
Survival should not be the end of the conversation.
Across four decades of oncology practice, Dr. Bosserman watched women survive cancer and then struggle to find help for the symptoms, sexual-health changes, and quality-of-life losses that followed. Too often, “no hormones” arrived without a real conversation — no route, no dose, no context, no acknowledgment of the suffering left behind.
CHOICES grew from the gap between being alive and feeling whole.
Where the argument lives.
Bring the evidence into your next conversation.
Evidence-based hormone, sexual health, and survivorship education for women and clinicians.
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