Endocrine (Hormonal) Therapies for Breast Cancer

Follow the links below to find information on hormonal treatments and the effects of hormones on breast cancer.

Updated December 2011

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Title:   Breast cancer and oestrogen
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Oestrogens affect the majority of breast cancers, which are called oestrogen receptor (ER) positive cancers. Medications used to treat these cancers either target oestrogen production or oestrogen action, preventing oestrogens from stimulating growth of breast cancer cells. In older women, being obese or taking combined hormone replacement therapy (HRT) long term may increase the risk of developing breast cancer.
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Chemotherapy alone versus endocrine therapy alone for metastatic breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. If the cancer has spread beyond the breast (metastatic disease), treatments include chemotherapy (anti-cancer drugs) and endocrine therapy (also known as hormonal treatment). Endocrine therapy is mainly ...
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and risk of breast cancer - NBOCC* Position statement
Publisher:   Cancer Australia
Description:   For the purposes of this position statement, the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC) defines HRT as the use of exogenous hormones (eg oestrogens, progestogen, testosterone) to manage menopausal symptoms.
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   Deciding about hormonal therapies
Publisher:   Cancer Australia
Description:   When deciding about hormonal therapies it's important to consider the likely benefits and possible side effects of the different treatments.
Date:   Dec 2009
Title:   Hormonal therapies
Publisher:   Cancer Australia
Description:   Cancer Australia providing information about breast cancer and ovarian cancer for women with breast and ovarian cancer health professionals and well women.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Types of hormonal therapy
Publisher:   Cancer Australia
Description:   There are different types of hormonal therapy for breast cancer. The type of hormonal therapy recommended for women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer depends on whether the woman has reached menopause.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Levonorgestrel intrauterine system for endometrial protection in women with breast cancer on adjuvant tamoxifen
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Tamoxifen is commonly used by women to reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence. Tamoxifen can also cause abnormal changes to the lining of the womb (endometrium), including polyps and cancer. Mirena is a uterine device that releases the progesterone...
Date:   Aug 2009
Title:   Side effects of hormonal therapies
Publisher:   Cancer Australia
Description:   Some side effects are common to all hormonal therapies, and some only happen with certain therapies.
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   LHRH agonists for adjuvant therapy of early breast cancer in premenopausal women
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   More than half of the premenopausal women who develop breast cancer have a type of cancer that is sensitive to hormones, termed 'oestrogen receptor positive' or ER+ disease. To slow the growth of any cancer cells that remain after surgery, hormonal ther...
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Aromatase inhibitors for treatment of advanced breast cancer in postmenopausal women
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Advanced (or metastatic) breast cancer is cancer that has spread beyond the breast and regional lymph node areas. Breast cancer can progress to metastatic disease despite the person undergoing a range of therapies given after initial treatment, such as ...
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Recommendations for endocrine therapy treatment of hormone receptor-positive advanced breast cancer
Publisher:   Cancer Australia
Description:   A clinical practice guideline developed by NBOCC. This document supplements guideline recommendations 22, 24a and 24b about the use of endocrine therapy in National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC) Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Advanced Breast Cancer, 2nd edition, 2001 (page 9).
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Surgery versus primary endocrine therapy for operable primary breast cancer in elderly women (70 years plus)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   While younger women with early-stage breast cancer almost invariably are treated with surgery plus endocrine therapy, (which deprives the cancer of hormones which induce growth of the cancer), women over the age of 70yrs are frequently offered endocrine...
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   New hope for advanced breast cancer - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   A study has brought some good news to postmenopausal women with advanced breast cancer.
Date:   Jul 2001
Title:   Clinical practice guidelines for the management of advanced breast cancer
Publisher:   National Health and Medical Research Council
Description:   These guidelines have been developed by a multidisciplinary working party, and are primarily intended for use by all health professionals involved in the management of women with advanced breast cancer. They aim to provide material that will be helpful and supportive to those managing the difficult range of problems that may present.
Date:   Jan 2001

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