Cancer Survivors Face Accelerated Menopause: What Treatment Options Exist

Cancer survivors, particularly young women, experience premature menopause with significant physical and psychological impacts including cognitive decline, mood challenges, and accelerated chronic disease risk.

For most women, menopause is a gradual biological passage arriving in the early fifties; for women who have survived cancer, it can arrive without warning, sometimes within days, stripped of the slow hormonal negotiation that allows the body to adapt. Treatment-induced menopause — whether from chemotherapy, radiation, or the surgical removal of ovaries — is a different kind of threshold, one that arrives with greater force and carries longer consequences. UCLA clinicians and researchers are working to ensure that surviving cancer does not mean surrendering quality of life to symptoms that are,

Cancer Survivors Face Accelerated Menopause: What Treatment Options Exist

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