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endocrine 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 a form of hormone therapy.
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
Hypernym
Formal
Formal
hormone treatment
Formal
Equivalents

Spanish

terapia endocrina

Valenciano

teràpia endocrina
Associated concepts
May cause
hormonal imbalance
Is accompanied by
modulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis
hormonal regulation
Examples
European guidelines note that there is no consensus on hormonal treatment for testicular descent but suggest offering endocrine treatment for bilateral UDT to possibly improve further fertility potential.