Hormonal Therapy

Hormonal Therapy

  • Hormone therapy is used to treat breast cancers that are sensitive to hormones.
  • Commonly used hormone therapy in Breast cancers is directed against estrogen receptor positive (ER positive) and progesterone receptor positive (PR positive) cancers.
  • Hormone therapy can be used before or after surgery or other treatments to decrease the chance of cancer returning.
  • Treatments that can be used in hormone therapy include:
  • Medications that block hormones from attaching to cancer cells (selective estrogen receptor modulators)
  • Medications that stop the body from making estrogen after menopause (aromatase inhibitors)