Definitions for "Hormone therapy"
Treatment with hormonal drugs that interfere with hormone production or hormone action, or surgical removal of hormone-producing glands to kill cancer cells or show their growth. The most common hormonal therapy for breast cancer is the drug tamoxifen. Other hormonal therapies include megestrol, aminoglutethimide, androgens and surgical removal of the ovaries (oophorectomy). See also tamoxifen.
A cancer treatment that lowers the amount of estrogen in a woman's body or that stops the cancer from using it. This helps to slow the growth of the tumor.
Hormones taken to change ones secondary sex characteristics. Estrogen by MTFs and testosterone by FTMs.
The administration of oral contraceptives or other hormones (e.g., progesterone) to raise VWF levels or reduce menstrual bleeding.