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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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, 12 June 2024
  • 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
  • Menopause can also be the result of chemotherapy or hormone therapy for breast cancer.
    Korin Miller, Health, 19 May 2024
  • Lia Thomas came out as transgender in the summer of 2019 and began hormone therapy shortly thereafter.
    Louise Radnofsky and Laine Higgins, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The clinic provides hormone therapy, such as testosterone, but gender surgery is not an option.
    Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Now doctors are more likely to recommend menopause hormone therapy for sleep issues, and a lot of my younger friends report that it’s really helped them a lot.
    Wendi Aarons, Flow Space, 13 June 2024
  • How do women move forward with menopausal hormone therapy?
    Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
  • Gender-affirming care can range from talk or hormone therapy to surgical intervention.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2024
  • That has included barring Medicaid coverage for treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty blockers and preventing the treatments for minors.
    Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2024

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