How to Use hormone therapy in a Sentence

hormone therapy

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Grimm was assigned female at birth but legally changed his name and began hormone therapy as a freshman in high school.
    — NBC News, 28 Aug. 2021
  • Transgender girls must have completed at least one full year of hormone therapy before they are allowed to play on the girls' team.
    — Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • For women, the 20th century became the era of hormones and hormone therapy.
    — Washington Post, 2 July 2021
  • But forcing hormone therapy or any other form of transition on a child is wrong, plain and simple.
    — Tyler O'Neil, Fox News, 4 Mar. 2022
  • His hormone therapy, which would cost about $60 to $65 per month, has always been covered by Medicaid.
    — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • One big concern is whether or not this hormone therapy boosts a woman’s risk for breast cancer, because studies are scant.
    — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 30 July 2019
  • Adding a newer drug to standard hormone therapy lengthens the lives of younger women with advanced breast cancer, a new trial has found.
    — Amy Norton, CBS News, 3 June 2019
  • Afinitor is used with a hormone therapy and blocks a protein that promotes cancer cell growth.
    — Coulter Jones and John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Back at Casa Zulma, Mariah Darling waved off the risk of side effects, pointing out that even hormone therapy can cause side effects.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Wednesday's lawsuit in Texas was filed on behalf of families of three boys — two 16-year-olds and a 14-year-old — who have been receiving hormone therapy.
    — CBS News, 9 June 2022
  • The role of estrogen has also been observed in transgender women on hormone therapy, who show similar migraine frequency to cisgender women.
    — Lori Youmshajekian, WIRED, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Research has found that hormone therapy can improve the mental health of transgender adolescents and teenagers, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, reducing depression and anxiety and increasing life satisfaction.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2024

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