Hormone therapy

Types of hormone therapy include:

• hormone replacement therapy
• hormone treatment of Klinefelter's syndrome
• hormone treatment of Turner syndrome
• hormone treatment in gender reassignment therapy[?]
• treatment with growth hormone to treat growth hormone deficiency[?]
• treatment with thyroid hormones in hypothyroidism
• replacement of calcitonin[?] following parathyroidectomy[?]
• replacement of testosterone in males with low levels due to disease or aging

The oral contraceptive pill is a form of hormone therapy.

Anti-hormone treatment with hormone antagonists[?] is also used: for example, the use of antiandrogens to suppress androgenic hormones.

See also: chemotherapy