Amani Jambhekar MD, MBA, FACS

Amani Jambhekar MD, MBA, FACS 📚📸 | Writing, photographing, and sharing the real stories behind breast cancer, melanoma, and genetic testing

08/19/2026

Cancer surgeon here clarifying who can take bioidentical hormones after getting a lot of comments on my videos about people taking them to treat ER+ breast cancer. This video is also featuring Ares!

08/18/2026

I don’t prescribe them because I am a surgical oncologist and our medical oncologists are the ones who prescribe them! I do recommend them to all my patients with hormone receptor positive breast cancer.

Have y’all tried any of these for joint pain?

08/18/2026

What I see is this place has run their grift on over 47,000 patients, caused more mistrust in evidence based treatments like chemotherapy, and spread misinformation which has led to deaths

08/17/2026

Let’s talk about this review article on what can be done to manage the side effects of aromatase inhibitors for patients taking them to prevent breast cancer recurrence. This is part 1: hot flashes.

Have any of y’all tried these? Let me know in the comments

08/16/2026

Part 4 about Suzanne Somers - this is in response to all of the misinformed people claiming “she chose a quality of life over quantity of life” self treating her breast cancer with pseudoscience and bioidentical hormones and dying of a likely curable low risk ER/PR+ cancer at 77.

Yes hormone blocking pills have side effects. However they help people with hormone receptor positive breast cancers live longer AND with overall a good quality of life long term. Most side effects such as mood changes, cognitive effects, and hot flashes stop when treatment ends. Bone loss can be persistent as well as low libido, vaginal dryness (which can be safely treated with vaginal estrogen cream), fatigue, and weight gain. One study reported persistent joint pain. The majority of my patients have been able to manage the side effects and some have experienced no side effects. Aromatase inhibitors reduce the recurrence of hormone receptors positive breast cancers by 40-50% (not the 3% absolute benefit misinformed people are quoting).

None of my patients have to dedicate all of their waking hours to injecting themselves with vitamins, taking daily infusions, swallowing 60+ pills, and and still try to find time to eat right and exercise to stay alive. None of them have to put on an act on live TV and pretend they are not exhausted from the treatment they chose or not terrified their breast cancer will return. Sometimes they have to redefine what life looks like after breast cancer, but they are able to have fulfilling, rich lives which is my hope for everyone diagnosed with breast cancer.

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08/16/2026

The “root cause” of melanoma is genetics + UV exposure. Wellness grifters are trying to get you to buy the claim that sunlight is “natural” so they can claim it doesn’t cause melanoma and other skin cancers. When it does, they are ready with their pseudoscience “natural” cures - link in bio!

08/15/2026

Unexpected part 3 about Suzanne Somers - this is in response to everyone who said “well she lived 23 years, sounds like her self treatment of her breast cancer was a success.” Check out parts 1 and 2 if you want to see what she shared about her treatment and more about the pseudoscience she chose instead of evidence based systemic treatment.

This was a preventable tragedy. Some women do face a recurrence of their breast cancer even when they follow all of their oncologists’ medical advice. But women who choose alternative medicine often without realizing that Suzanne DID have surgery and radiation at the very least don’t even have a chance.

She was also so privileged to have access to menopausal hormone treatment / hormone replacement therapy when women in 2009 and today still have to fight for it for evidence based indications.

If only she had used her privilege and platform to champion medical science and women’s health and not to promote dangerous pseudoscience.

08/15/2026

There is some nuance around HRT for patients with a prior history of breast cancer - it may be considered on a case by case basis for some who are no longer taking endocrine therapy. But Suzanne was taking massive doses and thinking this prevented recurrence when in fact it may have helped cause her recurrence along with refusing systemic treatment.

For those of you saying “she lived until 77, that’s longer than most” *she* wanted to live longer. She died of brain metastases which means she suffered. No one deserves the end she had and for her it was preventable.

08/15/2026

Who knows about Suzanne Somers’ breast cancer diagnosis? Here is how the misinformation she believed in and helped spread contributed to her death (part 1).

08/14/2026

I’ve seen many patients like this who had an incidentally discovered cancer they could not feel because they were high risk and started screening early. Risk assessment saves lives.

PS - sorry about the captions being so big đź«  I do all the recording and editing myself

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