Cancer

• Hormonal therapy for cancer
  Hormonal therapy (oncology)
  Hormonal therapy is one of the major modalities of medical treatment for cancer, others being cytotoxic chemotherapy and targeted therapy . It involves the manipulation of the endocrine system through exogenous administration of specific hormones, particularly steroid hormones, or drugs which...
  
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• Hormone therapy for prostate cancer
  Prostate cancer
  Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may metastasize from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly...
  
   refers to androgen deprivation therapy
  Androgen deprivation therapy
  Androgen deprivation therapy , a treatment for prostate cancer that reduces the production or effect of androgen hormones, eg. testosterone, which many prostate cancers depend on. The side-effects make it controversial in some cases. There is an increased risk of osteoporosis, and possibly...
  
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Aging

• Hormone replacement therapy (menopause)
  Hormone replacement therapy (menopause)
  Hormone replacement therapy is a system of medical treatment for surgically menopausal, perimenopausal and to a lesser extent postmenopausal women...
  
   connected to menopause
• Testosterone
  Testosterone
  Testosterone is a steroid hormone from the androgen group and is found in mammals, reptiles, birds, and other vertebrates. In mammals, testosterone is primarily secreted in the testes of males and the ovaries of females, although small amounts are also secreted by the adrenal glands...
  
   replacement in males with low levels due to disease or aging

Sex reassignment

• Hormone replacement therapy (female-to-male)
  Hormone replacement therapy (female-to-male)
  Hormone replacement therapy for transgender gender variant and transsexual introduces hormones associate with the gender that the patient identifies with...
  
   in sex reassignment therapy
  Sex reassignment therapy
  Sex reassignment therapy is an umbrella term for all medical procedures regarding sex reassignment of both transgender and intersexual people...
  
   for trans men
• Hormone replacement therapy (male-to-female)
  Hormone replacement therapy (male-to-female)
  Hormone replacement therapy for transgender and transsexual people changes the balance of sex hormones in their bodies. Some intersex people also receive HRT, either starting in childhood to confirm the sex to which they were assigned, or later, if this assignment has proven to be incorrect...
  
   in sex reassignment therapy
  Sex reassignment therapy
  Sex reassignment therapy is an umbrella term for all medical procedures regarding sex reassignment of both transgender and intersexual people...
  
   for trans women

Intersex conditions

• Hormone therapy in Klinefelter's syndrome
  Klinefelter's syndrome
  Klinefelter syndrome, 46/47, XXY, or XXY syndrome is a condition in which human males have an extra X chromosome. While females have an XX chromosomal makeup, and males an XY, affected individuals have at least two X chromosomes and at least one Y chromosome...
  
  
• Hormone therapy in Turner syndrome
  Turner syndrome
  Turner syndrome or Ullrich-Turner syndrome encompasses several conditions in human females, of which monosomy X is most common. It is a chromosomal abnormality in which all or part of one of the sex chromosomes is absent...
  
  

Hormonal deficiency

• Growth hormone treatment
  Growth hormone treatment
  Growth hormone treatment refers to the use of growth hormone in medical treatment. Growth hormone is a peptide hormone secreted by the pituitary gland that stimulates growth and cell reproduction. In the past, growth hormone was extracted from human pituitary glands. GH is now produced by...
  
   for growth hormone deficiency
  Growth hormone deficiency
  Growth hormone deficiency is a medical condition in which the body does not produce enough growth hormone . Growth hormone, also called somatotropin, is a polypeptide hormone which stimulates growth and cell reproduction...
  
  
• Thyroid hormone
  Thyroid hormone
  The thyroid hormones, thyroxine and triiodothyronine , are tyrosine-based hormones produced by the thyroid gland primarily responsible for regulation of metabolism. An important component in the synthesis of thyroid hormones is iodine. The major form of thyroid hormone in the blood is thyroxine ,...
  
   replacement in hypothyroidism
  Hypothyroidism
  Hypothyroidism is a condition in which the thyroid gland does not make enough thyroid hormone.Iodine deficiency is the most common cause of hypothyroidism worldwide but it can be caused by other causes such as several conditions of the thyroid gland or, less commonly, the pituitary gland or...
  
  

Psychological treatment

• Chemical castration
  Chemical castration
  Chemical castration is the administration of medication designed to reduce libido and sexual activity, usually in the hope of preventing rapists, child molesters and other sex offenders from repeating their crimes...
  
   of violent sex offender
  Sex offender
  A sex offender is a person who has committed a sex crime. What constitutes a sex crime differs by culture and by legal jurisdiction. Most jurisdictions compile their laws into sections such as traffic, assault, sexual, etc. The majority of convicted sex offenders have convictions for crimes of a...
  
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