Evidence. Collaboration. Community.
Better Care Beyond Cancer.
A Community Built for Clinicians and survivHERS
OncoMenopause™ is a permanent national education initiative of HERmedicine focused on the intersection of cancer survivorship, menopause, and midlife women’s health.
The initiative is advanced through the OncoMenopause Consortium®, a national multidisciplinary professional community that brings together clinicians, educators, researchers, advocates, and other leaders committed to improving the care of women affected by cancer.
Through the OncoMenopause Consortium, HERmedicine provides free live virtual education, in-person and virtual CME courses, seminars, workshops, lectures, case-based learning, professional collaboration, and evidence-based educational resources.
Through survivHERS, the initiative also builds an informed and supportive community for women navigating menopause, treatment-related symptoms, and long-term health after cancer.
HERmedicine is the national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and nonprofit home of OncoMenopause™ and the OncoMenopause Consortium®. Its mission is to advance evidence-based women’s health through education, collaboration, respectful dialogue, and community.
Why OncoMenopause Matters
The number of cancer survivors continues to grow, including many women diagnosed at younger ages who may live for decades beyond their cancer diagnosis.
Yet too many women receive fragmented care and limited guidance regarding menopause symptoms, sexual health, genitourinary syndrome of menopause, bone health, cardiovascular risk, metabolic health, cognition, sleep, quality of life, and long-term survivorship health.
For many women, cancer treatment accelerates or intensifies menopause through chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, ovarian suppression, surgery, or premature ovarian insufficiency. Menopause itself is a major physiologic transition that can affect symptoms, quality of life, and multiple aspects of long-term health.
Cancer survivors often face additional layers of complexity, including recurrence risk, treatment-related toxicities, genetic risk, comorbid disease, endocrine therapy symptoms, competing health risks, and uncertainty about available treatment options.
These concerns cannot be fully addressed within traditional specialty silos.
OncoMenopause™ was created within HERmedicine to help close this gap.
Our Mission
OncoMenopause™ is a permanent national education initiative of HERmedicine dedicated to advancing care at the intersection of cancer survivorship, menopause, and midlife women’s health.
The initiative is advanced through the OncoMenopause Consortium®, a national multidisciplinary professional community that provides free live evidence-based education, CME programming, case-based learning, clinical discussion, and professional collaboration.
Our mission is to improve the care of women affected by cancer by equipping clinicians with practical, rigorous education; building community across specialties; creating space for respectful dialogue about complex questions, evolving evidence, and divergent perspectives; and supporting survivHERS with trusted information, meaningful connection, and more individualized care.
The initiative is committed to:
Equipping clinicians with practical, current, evidence-based education
Supporting survivHERS with trusted and understandable health information
Building community among clinicians across specialties
Building connection and community among survivHERS
Encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration and shared expertise
Creating space for respectful discussion of complex questions, uncertainty, and divergent perspectives
Advancing individualized, evidence-informed decision-making
We recognize that the evidence surrounding menopause care after cancer is often incomplete, evolving, or open to differing interpretations. Progress requires a professional community in which clinicians can examine the evidence critically, discuss areas of disagreement openly, and engage with divergent views respectfully and without dogma.
Our Multidisciplinary Community
The OncoMenopause Consortium brings together clinicians and experts from multiple disciplines, including medical oncology, internal medicine, primary care, gynecology, menopause medicine, endocrinology, sexual medicine, cardiology, psychiatry, psychology, survivorship medicine, genetics, nursing, pharmacy, rehabilitation, research, and allied health.
No single specialty can address every aspect of menopause and long-term health after cancer.
The Consortium creates a trusted educational community where clinicians can learn from one another, discuss complex cases, evaluate evolving evidence, identify gaps in knowledge, and improve clinical reasoning across specialties.
We also center the voices of individuals with lived survivorship experience. Their perspectives help shape educational priorities, identify unmet needs, and ensure that this work remains relevant to the realities of life during and after cancer treatment.
Through expert-led education, case-based discussion, professional collaboration, and community, the OncoMenopause Consortium helps clinicians and survivHERS navigate difficult and nuanced questions, including:
Management of vasomotor symptoms after cancer
Genitourinary syndrome of menopause and sexual health after cancer treatment
Menopausal hormone therapy decision-making after cancer
Endocrine therapy-related symptoms and quality-of-life concerns
Cardiovascular, metabolic, bone, cognitive, and sexual health
Premature ovarian insufficiency and treatment-induced menopause
Risk stratification and shared decision-making in women with competing risks
Evidence gaps, misinformation, and areas where guidance remains limited or evolving
Building Community for survivHERS
Women affected by cancer frequently describe feeling isolated as they navigate menopause, treatment-related symptoms, changes in sexual health, concerns about recurrence, and uncertainty about their long-term health.
Through survivHERS, OncoMenopause creates a community where women can access trusted education, hear from multidisciplinary experts, connect with others who share similar experiences, and feel supported as they navigate life during and after cancer treatment.
survivHERS recognizes that survivorship is not defined only by cancer surveillance. It also includes quality of life, symptom management, emotional well-being, relationships, sexual health, prevention, and the opportunity to live well beyond cancer.
Free Education and Expanded Learning
OncoMenopause is committed to making high-quality, evidence-based education broadly accessible.
Clinicians, survivHERS, and others interested in women’s health after cancer may participate in free live virtual educational programming, including Wednesday evening sessions led by national multidisciplinary experts.
Additional educational and community opportunities include:
In-person and virtual CME programming
A membership-based recorded education library
Member-only clinical education
Multidisciplinary case-based discussion
OncoMenopause Tumor Board participation
Professional forums and collaboration
Educational resources for clinicians and survivHERS
Opportunities to help shape future educational priorities
Free live programming allows broad access to trusted education. Optional paid membership and CME programming provide opportunities for deeper learning, continued engagement, case discussion, and professional community.
Our Vision
We envision a future in which every woman affected by cancer has access to expert, individualized menopause and midlife healthcare as an essential part of long-term survivorship.
That care should be grounded in the best available evidence, informed by each woman’s cancer history, health risks, symptoms, goals, and personal values, and supported by clinicians who are prepared to collaborate across oncology, menopause medicine, primary care, gynecology, sexual health, survivorship care, and related disciplines.
We envision a connected community in which clinicians learn across specialties, uncertainty can be acknowledged, differing perspectives can be discussed openly and respectfully, and survivHERS have the trusted information and support they need to live well beyond cancer.
Cancer survivorship is not only about treatment and surveillance.
It is about helping women live well beyond cancer.
One Nonprofit. One Focused National Initiative. Two Connected Communities.
HERmedicine is the nonprofit education organization and the nonprofit home of this work.
OncoMenopause™ is HERmedicine’s permanent national education initiative focused on cancer survivorship, menopause, and midlife women’s health.
The OncoMenopause Consortium® is the multidisciplinary professional community through which the initiative is advanced.
survivHERS is the community created to educate, connect, and support women affected by cancer.
Together, they are building a national education community committed to improving women’s healthcare—replacing fragmentation with collaboration, misinformation with evidence, dogma with thoughtful discourse, and isolation with community.