Hormonal Treatment

Hormone therapy may be a sort of systemic therapy—a way of administering drugs in order that they travel throughout the body, instead of being delivered on to the cancer—that works to feature , block or remove hormones from the body to slow or stop the expansion of cancer cells. At Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), we use more hormone therapy to fight various sorts of cancer.Hormones are referred to as the body’s chemical messengers and are produced within the endocrine glands, which include glands such as the thyroid, pancreas, ovaries in women and testes in men. Some hormones encourage the expansion of some cancers, like breast and prostate. But, in some cases, they'll kill, slow or stop cancer cells from growing. Hormone therapy usually involves taking medications that prevent cancer cells from getting the hormones they have to grow. In some cases, your doctor may surgically remove the gland responsible for hormone production. Our physicians may use hormone therapy together with other cancer treatments, like chemotherapy and radiotherapy . Because this treatment interferes with the functioning of specific hormones within the body, counting on the sort of cancer and specific drug administered, medications may cause side effects. Hormone therapy drugs taken to treat prostatic adenocarcinoma , for instance , may cause male erecticle dysfunction .