Endocrine (Hormonal) Therapies for Breast Cancer

Follow the links below to find information on hormonal treatments for breast cancer.

Reviewed June 2007

Printer friendly page

13 Resources Found
Results 1 to 13 displayed.
Title:   Risk of invasive breast cancer in women exposed to diethylstilbestrol in utero - NBOCC position statement
Publisher:   National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC)
Description:   Risk of invasive breast cancer in women exposed to diethylstilbestrol in utero: A review of the evidence. A position statement from the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC)
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Phytoestrogens and breast cancer
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   There has been much speculation about phytoestrogens - particularly soy products, and breast cancer risk. This is mainly based on the idea that because these foods contain oestrogen, they can stimulate the breast tissue like our own body's oestrogen or prescribed oestrogen might.
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Side effects of hormonal therapies
Publisher:   National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC)
Description:   Hormonal therapies have some side effects in common, and others that differ. Also, different women may respond differently to the same treatment.
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Hormone therapy treatment for breast cancer
Publisher:   National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC)
Description:   Information about hormonal therapies for women with early breast cancer.
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Deciding whether to use hormonal therapies
Publisher:   National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC)
Description:   Hormonal therapies are usually recommended for women who have hormone receptors on their breast cancer cells. Your doctor will also consider the risk of your breast cancer coming back, and your general health.
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Types of hormonal therapies
Publisher:   National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC)
Description:   There are different ways of reducing the level of female hormones in the body: anti-oestrogens, aromatase inhibitors and anti-ovarian treatments.
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   What are hormonal therapies?
Publisher:   National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC)
Description:   Hormonal therapies (also called endocrine therapies) are drugs used to treat women with breast cancer who have hormone receptors on their breast cancer cells. Hormone receptors are proteins on the surface of a cell that allow the cell to bind to hormones.
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Breast cancer and oestrogen
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Around 60 per cent of breast cancers are sensitive to the female sex hormone oestrogen. The growth of these cancers can be minimised by taking drugs that block the action of oestrogen in the breast tissue.
Date:   Oct 2006
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. Endocrine therapy removes the influence of oestrogen on breast cancer cells and can prevent the cells from growing and spreading in early breast cancer if the tumour is ...
Date:   Oct 2006
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 receive endocrine therapy in addition to surgery, women over 70 are frequently offered endocrine therapy alone (primary endocrine therapy). This review demonstrates that primary endocr...
Date:   Nov 2005
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:   Feb 2003
Title:   New hope for advanced breast cancer
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 (NHMRC)
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
Results 1 to 13 displayed.