Endometrial Cancer

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Hormone Therapy



Some uterine tumors contain certain proteins, called hormone receptors, which attract and bind to estrogen and use this hormone to grow. Hormone therapy is a systemic treatment (i.e., affects cells throughout the body) that uses progesterone to balance the effect of estrogen (i.e., prevent it from reaching and binding to receptor cells) and slow tumor growth. Hormone therapy may be used to treat endometrial cancer.

Hormone therapy is used to treat metastatic or rec...Read the full article