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hormone therapy
Medical treatment that uses, blocks, or modulates hormones or hormonal drugs to act on hormone-dependent processes, such as certain cancers, or to stimulate follicular maturation and regulate the reproductive cycle in assisted reproduction. It is also called hormonal therapy, hormonotherapy or hormone treatment.
Grammatical category Noun
Field Assisted Reproductive Techniques
Level of specialization High
Definition source National Library of Medicine
Gender relationship No
Specific to one sex No
Variants
Hyponym
Formal
Synonym
Formal
Formal
hormonotherapy
Formal
Equivalents

Spanish

tratamiento hormonal

Valenciano

tractament hormonal
Associated concepts
May cause
hormonal side effects
cardiovascular effects
thrombosis
Is accompanied by
hormonal monitoring
ultrasound monitoring
medical follow-up
Type of
medical treatment
Examples
This process ensures access to hormone therapy and surgical interventions for those who desire, including reproductive health care.
The risk factors of the patients who needed fertility treatments, the causes of the infertility itself, and the hormone therapy that they received, are all plausible causes for the increased risk for PE in ART patients.
Collocations
WITH VERBS
receive | undergo | take | prescribe | use | follow | avoid | reject hormone therapy

WITH ADJECTIVES
menopausal hormone therapy
WITH NOUNS
effectiveness of hormone therapy | access to hormone therapy | use of hormone therapy