Major Breakthrough Cancer Cures

Hormone Therapy

Hormone therapy is a type of treatment that has been shown to be effective in slowing or stopping the growth of certain kinds of cancers that can utilize hormones to grow. There are two main types of hormone therapy characterized by the mechanism of which they work. Hormone therapy can work by inhibiting the body's mechanism of natural production of hormones, or it can work by altering the way hormones function in the body. The forms of cancer that use hormones to grow and can be treated with hormone therapy are breast and prostate cancer. Hormone therapy can be used to eradicate cancerous cells that have metastasized to other parts of the body or malignant cells that have returned. Hormone therapy is commonly used in tandem with other cancer treatments. It can be used as neoadjuvant therapy to shrink a cancerous tumor before its surgical excision or eradication with radiation therapy. Hormone therapy can be used as adjuvant therapy or therapy used to reduce the risk a patient's cancer will return after they have undergone the primary treatment for it.

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