Hormone therapy

Hormone (or Endocrine) therapy involves using sex hormones to treat  'hormone sensitive' or 'hormone dependent' cancers such as those of breast, prostate, and womb cancers where the cancer cells are stimulated to grow by oestrogen (breast cancer) or testosterone (prostate cancer). Hormone treatments are also sometimes used for kidney cancer and for melanoma.

Hormone therapy can also be used in combination with another procedure, for example to shrink a tumour before radiotherapy or surgery.

See Cancerbackup for more details.

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