128 - Making decisions about cancer treatment and the importance of quality of life with Steve Payne

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast · Nov 30, 2021 · 31m

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’s 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’s quality of life deteriorated due to severe urine and kidney infections, as well as other symptoms relating to a lack of estrogen. The experts talk about how some people’s experience in cancer care clinics can fall short of patients and their partners being given full…