New term request: therapeutic cancer hormone treatment

[CDowland]

Editor preferred term: therapeutic cancer hormone treatment

Alternative term: cancer hormone therapy

Textual definition: A therapeutic hormone treatment that has some objective to negatively regulate the realizations of some cancer borne by some person, by preventing the production of, or interfering with the actions of, some hormone whose actions can positively regulate the realization of that cancer.

Definition source(s): https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/hormone-therapy; https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/hormone-therapy#THT

Parent class: therapeutic hormone treatment

Example of usage: Joe received therapeutic cancer hormone treatment to slow the growth of his cancer.

Term editor: Matthew Diller

Contributor: William R. Hogan

Contributor: S. Clint Dowland

I'm also attaching a spreadsheet that displays the term request in a different format. NTR - therapeutic cancer hormone treatment.xlsx