Hormone therapy (redirected from Sex-hormone therapy)

Hormone therapy

Treating cancers by changing the hormone balance of the body, instead of by using cell-killing drugs.

Mentioned in: Breast Cancer, Thyroid Cancer

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hormone therapy Endocrine therapy Endocrinology The use of hormones to manage deficiency states–eg, pharmacologic doses of steroids are antiinflammatory or immunosuppressive. See Ectopic hormones, Estrogen receptors Gynecology See Estrogen replacement therapy, Hormone replacement therapy Oncology A treatment modality in which hormonal effect is eliminated, blocked, or added in CAs known to respond to hormone receptor manipulation Breast cancer HT blocks receptors for estrogens and, to a lesser extent, progesterone, ↓ cancer aggressiveness Lymphoproliferative disorders Adjuvant therapy uses corticosteroids in both induction of remissions and maintenance doses Prostate cancer HT inhibits gonadotropin in the pituitary with potent analogues–eg, buserelin, leuprolide acetate, blocking gonadotropin-releasing hormone, or blocksperipheral action of androgens at the cellular level–eg, flutamide, nilutamide.