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Hormone therapy is a cancer treatment that removes hormones or blocks their action and stops cancer cells from growing. Hormones are substances made by glands in the body and circulated in the bloodstream.

Information from the National Cancer Institute unless otherwise specified

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Some hormones can cause certain cancers to grow. If tests show that the cancer cells have places where hormones can attach (receptors), drugs, surgery, or radiation therapy is used to reduce the production of hormones or block them from working.

Treat cancer.

  • Hormone therapy can lessen the chance that cancer will return or stop or slow its growth.
  • Ease cancer symptoms. Hormone therapy may be used to reduce or prevent symptoms in men with prostate cancer who are not able to have surgery or radiation therapy.

Hormone therapy falls into two broad groups:

  • Those that block the body’s ability to produce hormones.
  • Those that interfere with how hormones behave in the body.
  • This can make a tumor smaller before surgery or radiation therapy. This is called neoadjuvant therapy.
  • This can lower the risk that cancer will come back after the main treatment. This is called adjuvant therapy.
  • This can destroy cancer cells that have returned or spread to other parts of your body.
  • Range of scores for the Decipher test showing low, intermediate, and high risk of prostate cancer metastasis
  • Genetic Test May Help Predict Whether Prostate Cancer Will Spread
  • The test may help determine whether to treat with hormone therapy.
  • Hormone therapy is used to treat prostate and breast cancers that use hormones to grow.
  • Hormone therapy is most often used along with other cancer treatments.
  • The types of treatment that you need depend on the type of cancer, if it has spread and how far, if it uses hormones to grow, and if you have other health problems.
  • Range of scores for the Decipher test showing low, intermediate, and high risk of prostate cancer metastasis
  • Genetic Test May Help Predict Whether Prostate Cancer Will Spread
  • The test may help determine whether to treat with hormone therapy.

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