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What does HT stand for?

Hormone Therapy


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60-80% of such patients will respond to the hormone therapy in the beginning, however, 35-45% of them will start not to respond and it flares up within one year.
Van Hemelrijck and colleagues studied more than 30,000 men in Sweden with prostate cancer who got hormone therapy between 1997 and 2006, for about three years.
A new study links hormone therapy for prostate cancer with a higher risk of death in older men who've had serious heart problems.
A second study found that women who had taken hormone therapy had slightly smaller brain volumes in the brain's frontal lobe and the hippocampus -- both critical areas for thinking and memory skills.
The Effect of Prior Use of Hormone Therapy on Breast Cancer Survival AbstraCt & Commentary By Leon Speroff, MD, Editor, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, is Editor for OB/GYN Clinical Alert.
However, this research is unique because it didn t only consider natural hormones and those used in oral contraceptives - it also included products used in hormone therapy prescribed for menopausal women.
She is particularly concerned about guiding women through the confusing literature on hormone therapy.
New independent study found that Zometa (Zoledronic Acid) when added to hormone therapy, following surgery, significantly reduced the risk of cancer recurrence or death by 36%, beyond clinical benefits achieved with hormone therapy alone in premenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer.

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