The hormone therapy of the endometrial cancer administers the oral hormone which or performs reverse action of each of both hormones by an injection by medical treatment to take using the estrogen (you promote an increase of an ovarian follicle hormone / the endometrial cancer) of the female sex hormone and a characteristic of the progesterone (aggravation of corpus luteum hormone / endometrial cancer restraint).
The hormone therapy says the internal secretion medical treatment, and, as for the treatment, it is with a long term because it is a characteristic that you do not deaden a cancer cell and suppress the increase of the cancer cell, and control.
A receptor to be combined with these hormones in cancer cellular tissue is necessary, and it is necessary to confirm that there is a receptor beforehand so that estrogen or progesterone expresses an effect in a cancer cell to perform hormone therapy.
When you want to keep the womb in hope of possibility of the pregnancy and you are intended, and, as for the hormone therapy, it is generally performed the prevention of the recurrence in the cases that the state of the whole body of the patient is not good, and chemotherapy is difficult.
In hormone therapy, progesterone drugs are usually used, but the tamoxifen which is the antiestrogen that estrogen prevents a cancer cell and a thing of a tie and the LH-RH analog agent to restrain estrogenic secretion are used.
We have the side effect in the hormone therapy, and it is necessary you develop the thrombosis that blood hardens in a blood vessel, and to be careful mainly.
