hormone therapy...
Hormone therapy can also be called anti-hormone treatment. If lab tests show that your breast cancer cells have hormone receptors, then hormone therapy may be an option. Hormone therapy keeps the cancer cells from getting or using the natural hormones (estrogen and progesterone) they need to grow.
If you have not gone through menopause, the options for hormone therapy include:
If you have not gone through menopause, the options for hormone therapy include:
- A drug that blocks estrogen's activity in the body (tamoxifen)
- Surgery to remove your ovaries (which make estrogen)
- A drug that reduces the amount of estrogen made by the ovaries.
- A drug that prevents the body from making estrogen (aromatase inhibitor)
- Tamoxifen