How to Use hormone therapy in a Sentence

hormone therapy

noun
  • She’s had this hormone therapy since her freshman year of high school.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 21 July 2023
  • In the 1940s, hormone therapy emerged as a treatment option.
    TIME, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Manuel chose the latter, and began hormone therapy in 2013.
    Ben Wyatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Some may go on hormone therapy to help align their body with their gender identity.
    Carla A. Pfeffer, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Last month, a 17-year-old testified that his life has been transformed by the hormone therapy he's been receiving and said ending the treatments could force his family to leave the state.
    Andrew Demillo, ajc, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Over the past five years, she’s been in and out of the hospital for radiation, chemotherapy, surgeries and hormone therapy, as the cancer spread to her liver, lymph nodes, spine and bones.
    Sophia Liang, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Ohio is now the 22nd state with a law that restricts minors’ access to puberty blockers and hormone therapy and the 24th with a law that bars trans girls and women from playing on women’s school sports teams.
    Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Some forms of hormone therapy for breast cancer, such as tamoxifen, can run for five to 10 years in order to help prevent a recurrence of breast cancer.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The ruling in the lawsuit prevents the state from enforcing a ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors.
    Kimberlee Kruesi and Jonathan Mattise, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
  • This part of the process may also include hormone therapy that can lead to gender-affirming physical change, but again, the care plan is flexible, Deutsch said.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Research shows that hormone therapy can improve the mental health of transgender adolescents and teenagers, a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine found.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Some options include hormone therapy to shrink the size of the masses, as well as introducing birth control pills, IUDs, or progesterone shots to help curb bleeding and pain.
    Kayla Greaves, Allure, 17 July 2023
  • Research shows hormone therapy can improve the mental health of transgender adolescents and teenagers, a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine found.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The women all had surgery and hormone therapy and were divided into a group that underwent radiation and a group that went without it.
    Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Given those complexities, some think that telehealth isn’t a good fit for systemic hormone therapy at all.
    Katie Palmer, STAT, 17 July 2023
  • The bill restricts the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy or surgeries for transgender youth.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • More than half of all people who desire hormone therapy but don’t receive it report suicidal thoughts.
    Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Though it’s long been a mainstay of care, menopausal hormone therapy carries with it serious risks including cancer.
    Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Professional guidelines call for hormone therapy — such as testosterone for female-to-male transition and estrogen for male-to-female — to begin around the age of 15 to 16.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • But with intense hormone therapy, the estrogen supply feeding her cancer has been largely shut down.
    Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
  • This is a common finding across research on hormone therapy and trans and nonbinary people.
    Carla A. Pfeffer, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Anti-trans protesters had gathered across the street and were deriding hormone therapy, a treatment that provided Pastor a way to feel more like herself.
    Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023

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