How to Use hormone therapy in a Sentence
hormone therapy
noun-
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 -
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 -
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 -
This month, the justices debated whether states can ban transgender people under the age of 18 from receiving puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
— Maureen Groppe, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024 -
Dozens of transgender people, along with their families and allies, gathered outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday as the justices considered a Tennessee law banning access to puberty blockers and hormone therapy for trans minors.
— Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
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