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Hormone therapy
Several types of cancer, including some breast and prostate cancers, can only grow and spread in the presence of natural chemicals in the body called hormones. Hormone therapy fights cancer by changing the amounts of hormones in the body, and is used to treat cancers of the prostate, breast, and reproductive system. For example, tamoxifen (Nolvadex) is an anti-estrogen drug used to treat some hormone-responsive breast cancers. |
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