Now my oncologist says I’ll be doing hormone therapy. I thought women with breast cancer weren’t supposed to do hormone therapy…?

A. OK, you’re understandably confused. Hormone therapy is different than hormone REPLACEMENT therapy (HRT).

HRT has been used for years to treat symptoms of menopause by increasing the level of certain hormones in your body, hormones whose level is dropping as your body slows down with age. HRT is NOT recommended for breast cancer survivors; and healthy women are cautioned about its use, since it’s been shown to raise the risk of breast cancer. Hormone therapy, on the other hand, is using drugs to block the production of hormones in your body, or to block the hormones’ ability to attach themselves to your cells.

Certain types of breast cancer rely on hormones to grow. Without the necessary hormones, cancer cells die, and the spread of the disease is stopped. More.

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