Cancer Fertility and Me
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Hormone sensitive

Certain cancers are called hormone sensitive or hormone dependent. Hormone therapy uses drugs that either stop the body producing hormones or prevent hormones from making the cancer cells grow and divide. Cancers that can be hormone sensitive include breast, prostate, womb and kidney cancers.

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Cancer, Fertility and Me – Patient Decision Aid (version 4.0) – this online version was published and last amended in July 2020. Review date July 2021. See update policy.

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Every effort has been made to provide accurate and complete information at the date of publication. However, errors can occur. If you have any questions, please ask your cancer care team and fertility care team for more information. July 2020.

Production of this website was supported by Yorkshire Cancer Research and the University of Edinburgh