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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)