#hormone therapy

Switching Hormonal Therapies

An estrogen receptor known as ERα plays a critical role in more than 70% of breast cancers.

Aerobic and pelvic floor exercises as well as yoga appear to help prostate cancer patients with sexual problems.

The actress, who has metastatic breast cancer, encourages people to “cut through the fear and face whatever might be in front of you.”

Adding Zytiga plus prednisolone to standard therapy lengthened survival.

Adding the CDK 4/6 inhibitor to hormone prolonged survival by a year.

My visit to the urologist this afternoon went just as expected, and even a little better.

Transgender men and women, nonbinary people and cisgender men also get breast cancer—but are not reflected in breast cancer campaigns.

During the first two years after diagnosis, one third of breast cancer patients said fertility concerns affected their treatment decisions.

The test could help patients with ER-positive breast cancer avoid months of ineffective treatment during which their disease may progress.

Treatment with androgen receptor inhibitors was associated with a higher likelihood of falls and fractures.

However, adjuvant chemotherapy does improve outcomes for premenopausal women with early-stage cancer that has spread to their lymph nodes.

A new podcast explores what it’s really like to have this common disease.

Gynecologist Stacy Tessler Lindau, MD, is director of a program in integrative sexual medicine for women and girls with cancer.

Studies suggest BTK inhibitors and hormone therapy might lessen disease severity and speed recovery.

Stay in touch with your cancer care team about how the new pandemic will affect you and your treatment.