A treatment that blocks the body’s natural hormones that help cancer grow, which is used when the cancer is growing in response to hormones. Also called hormone therapy.

A treatment that blocks the body’s natural hormones that help cancer grow. Also called hormone treatment.

A hormone that helps control the production of testosterone.

Proteins in a cell that bind to specific hormones.

Drug therapy that supplies the body with hormones that it no longer produces naturally.

A treatment that blocks the body’s natural hormones that help cancer grow. Also called hormone therapy or hormone treatment.

A hormone produced by the ovaries that prepares the lining of the uterus (endometrium) for pregnancy. Also used as a hormone treatment….

An anti-oestrogen hormone treatment….

Treatment given to cure the cancer, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy. This does not include long-term treatment such as hormone medication, which may be taken for several years to maintain remission.

Breast cancer cells that have a receptor protein to which oestrogen will attach. Breast cancer cells that are ER+ depend on the hormone oestrogen to grow….