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Hormonal therapy

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Hormonal therapy
Use of hormone medications to inhibit menstruation and relieve the symptoms of endometriosis.
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Researchers found that one in three Black women and nearly one in four Latinas didn't get the radiation, chemotherapy and hormonal therapy needed after breast cancer surgery.
In addition to possible choices of radiation, radical surgery, or some form of hormonal therapy, Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery offers the latest medical data on state-of-the-art radiation therapy such as seed implants and IMRT (Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy).
If this switch rate is true of the general population, Pitkin and Scott note, then doctors counseling women who have heavy bleeding can point out that half of those who pursue hormonal therapy eventually choose to have a hysterectomy.
 
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