Genre: Information/Explanation

Hormonal Treatments / Hormone Therapy Hormones are chemicals in our bodies that send messages to cells to tell them what to do and how to work . Some cancers use hormones to help them grow . Therefore it can sound strange that we can use hormones to treat cancer as well . The clever thing is that if a person has a cancer that feeds on one type of hormone , then we can give them another type of hormone that works the opposite way . The effect is that the cancer tumour will either stop growing , or grow more slowly .