Chemicals and Drugs

Hormonal Antineoplastic Agents

Antineoplastic agents that are used to treat hormone-sensitive tumors. Hormone-sensitive tumors may be hormone-dependent, hormone-responsive, or both. A hormone-dependent tumor regresses on removal of the hormonal stimulus, by surgery or pharmacological block. Hormone-responsive tumors may regress when pharmacologic amounts of hormones are administered regardless of whether previous signs of hormone sensitivity were observed. The major hormone-responsive cancers include carcinomas of the breast, prostate, and endometrium; lymphomas; and certain leukemias. (From AMA Drug Evaluations Annual 1994, p2079)

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Antineoplastic agents that are used to treat hormone-sensitive tumors. Hormone-sensitive tumors may be hormone-dependent, hormone-responsive, or both. A hormone-dependent tumor regresses on removal of the hormonal stimulus, by surgery or pharmacological block. Hormone-responsive tumors may regress when pharmacologic amounts of hormones are administered regardless of whether previous signs of hormone sensitivity were observed. The major hormone-responsive cancers include carcinomas of the breast, prostate, and endometrium; lymphomas; and certain leukemias. (From AMA Drug Evaluations Annual 1994, p2079)

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11 entry terms
  • Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
  • Antineoplastic Drugs, Hormonal
  • Antineoplastic Hormonal Agents
  • Antineoplastic Hormonal Drugs
  • Antineoplastics, Hormonal
  • Hormonal Agents, Antineoplastic
  • Hormonal Antineoplastic Drugs
  • Hormonal Antineoplastics
  • Agents, Antineoplastic Hormonal
  • Drugs, Antineoplastic Hormonal
  • Hormonal Drugs, Antineoplastic

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Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, agonists, analysis, antagonists & inhibitors, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, economics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.

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consider also NEOPLASMS, HORMONE-DEPENDENT /drug ther

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  • Antineoplastic Agents (1966-1995)

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  1. D27.505.954.248w.169

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Hormonal Antineoplastic Agents. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018931. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018931
  2. Hormonal Antineoplastic Agents. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50430266