How to Use hormone therapy in a Sentence

hormone therapy

noun
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  • The women took the hormone therapy for five to seven years.
    — Alice Park, Time, 12 Sep. 2017
  • All had surgery and hormone therapy, and half also got chemo.
    — Marilynn Marchione, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2018
  • The hormone therapy is likely to stop the growth of the bone metastases, perhaps even shrink the lesions, Watson said.
    — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 24 May 2018
  • Half of those women had used what’s known as menopausal hormone therapy, or MHT.
    — Megan Thielking, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2019
  • She’s had this hormone therapy since her freshman year of high school.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 21 July 2023
  • But age alone shouldn’t force a woman off hormone therapy.
    — Becky Upham, EverydayHealth.com, 10 Sep. 2024
  • In the 1940s, hormone therapy emerged as a treatment option.
    — TIME, 18 Oct. 2023
  • And then there’s the red pill itself, less a metaphor for hormone therapy than a literal hormone.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Manuel chose the latter, and began hormone therapy in 2013.
    — Ben Wyatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2023
  • By the end of the 18-year study, the death rates from any cause among the women receiving some form of hormone therapy were similar to that of women who took the placebo.
    — Alice Park, Time, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The core of the treatment was hormone therapy: high estrogen doses to bring forward the closure of the growth plates in her bones, which would in turn stop her growing.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2012
  • Half of the women had received hormone therapy for menopause, the researchers noted.
    — chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Women took hormone therapy for an average of 10 years, in current users, and for seven years in past users, the team said.
    — chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The largest and longest clinical trials to date of menopausal hormone therapy have found that the drugs do not increase the risk of premature death.
    — Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Watson started him on hormone therapy, which squelches the testosterone that feeds the growth of prostate cancer.
    — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 24 May 2018
  • His body is no longer the same after six years of treatment, which includes a constant low dose of hormone therapy that shuts down his testosterone.
    — Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Wired, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The boy, James Young, wished to identify as a girl and receive hormone therapy to transition.
    — Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Some may go on hormone therapy to help align their body with their gender identity.
    — Carla A. Pfeffer, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Most of the women were taking hormone therapy for hot flashes.
    — Becky Upham, EverydayHealth.com, 10 Sep. 2024
  • At 13, Fabián was Ecuador’s boxing champion but soon gave up the sport to begin hormone therapy.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 14 Nov. 2022
  • And the hormone therapy used was a high-dose hormone distilled from horse estrogens.
    — Maggie Fox, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
  • This is a low-dose hormone therapy that replaces some of the estrogen that’s lost during the menopausal transition.
    — Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2022
  • There are greater risks for women who start hormone therapy after age 60.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The law banned both hormone therapy and surgery for transgender inmates.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2019
  • In its wake, Dylan, 17, a plaintiff in a legal challenge to the ban, was confronted with the prospect of moving out of the state to continue his hormone therapy.
    — Eliza Fawcett, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2022
  • If the Supreme Court allows the ban to stand, access to puberty blockers and hormone therapy will depend on where a young person lives.
    — Maureen Groppe, The Courier-Journal, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Internet research taught him so much, from how to change a name legally to what side effects hormone therapy can cause.
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Sarah, the mother in Tennessee, said the stakes for receiving hormone therapy could not be higher for her child.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 3 Dec. 2024
  • There are other circumstances in which non-transgender patients can be treated with puberty blockers and hormone therapy, the challengers say.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024
  • An earlier study, also published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, found that transgender women who went through male puberty retained an athletic edge after one year of hormone therapy.
    — Brooke Migdon, The Hill, 18 Dec. 2024

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