HORMONE THERAPY

Specialty Definition: HORMONE THERAPY

Domain	Definition
Health	Treatment of cancer by removing, blocking, or adding hormones. Also called endocrine therapy. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Hormone therapy

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In medicine, hormone therapy is the use of hormones in medical treatment and covers various types of hormones including growth hormones and sex hormones.

Types of hormone therapy include:

hormone replacement therapy
hormone treatment of Klinefelter's syndrome
hormone treatment of Turner syndrome
hormone treatment in gender reassignment therapy
treatment with growth hormone to treat growth hormone deficiency
treatment with thyroid hormones in hypothyroidism
replacement of calcitonin following parathyroidectomy
replacement of testosterone in males with low levels due to disease or aging

The oral contraceptive pill is a form of hormone therapy.

Anti-hormone treatment with hormone antagonists is also used: for example, the use of antiandrogens to suppress androgenic hormones.

Crosswords: HORMONE THERAPY

Specialty definitions using "HORMONE THERAPY": adjuvant therapy, aromatase inhibition ♦ hormonal therapy ♦ Megace, megestrol ♦ vorozole. (references)

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Commercial Usage: HORMONE THERAPY

Domain	Title
Books	The Menopause, Hormone Therapy, & Women's Health (reference) The Testosterone Solution: Increase Your Energy and Vigor With Male Hormone Therapy (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: HORMONE THERAPY

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Hormone therapy can cause a number of side effects. (references)
		Pregnant women, women on hormone therapy, and women who use birth control pills. (references)
		In women, hormone therapy may cause interrupted menstrual periods and vaginal dryness. (references)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HORMONE THERAPY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
hormone therapy	202
growth hormone therapy	68
human growth hormone therapy	45
natural hormone therapy	21
prostate cancer hormone therapy	17
male hormone therapy	7
alternative hormone therapy	6
breast cancer hormone therapy	5
free hormone therapy	4
hormone therapy drug	4
transgender hormone therapy	3
hormone therapy cancer	3
testosterone hormone therapy	3
estrogen hormone therapy	3
dementia hormone therapy	3
hormone therapy thyroid	3
hormone therapy woman	2
female hormone therapy	2
alzheimers hormone therapy	2
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Modern Translation: HORMONE THERAPY

Language		Translations for "HORMONE THERAPY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		hormonothérapie associée (combined hormone therapy, induction hormone therapy). (various references)

German		kombinierte Hormontherapie (combined hormone therapy). (various references)

Italian		terapia a induzione ormonale (induction hormone therapy), ormonoterapia combinata (combined hormone therapy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ホルモン療法 (14 March, holocaust, hologram, holograph, holographic, holography, Honda, Honduras, honky-tonk, horn, horoscope, phon, short-sleeved dress shirt, white, White Day, white gasoline, white gold, White House, white liquor, white meat, white noise, white pepper, white sauce, white space, white tie, whiteboard, white-collar, Whitehall). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ホルモンりょうほう. (various references)

Pig Latin		ormonehay erapythay

Spanish		hormonoterapia combinada (combined hormone therapy), terapia hormonal por inducción (induction hormone therapy). (various references)
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Anagrams: HORMONE THERAPY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-h-m-n-o-o-p-r-r-t-y"
	-3 letters: heterophony, hymenoptera.
	-4 letters: heteronomy, homeopathy, homopteran.
	-5 letters: aeronomer, harpooner, heteronym, homeopath, hyphenate, pheromone, protonema, pyrometer, repayment, taphonomy, temporary, theophany, treponema.
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