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Types of hormone therapy include:

• hormone replacement therapy
• hormone treatment of Klinefelter's syndrome
• hormone treatment of Turner syndrome
• hormone treatment in gender reassignment therapy
• treatment with growth hormone to treat growth hormone deficiency
• treatment with thyroid hormones in hypothyroidism
• replacement of calcitonin following parathyroidectomy
• replacement of testosterone in males with low levels due to disease or aging

The oral contraceptive pill is a form of hormone therapy.

Anti-hormone treatment with hormone antagonist s is also used: for example, the use of antiandrogenAn antiandrogen or androgen antagonist is any of a group of hormone antagonist compounds that are capable of preventing or inhibiting the biologic effects of androgens, male sex hormones, on normally responsive tissues in the body (see androgen insensitivs to suppress androgenAndrogen is the generic term for any natural or synthetic compound, usually a steroid hormone, that stimulates or controls the development and maintenance of masculine characteristics in vertebrates. This includes the activity of the accessory male sex oric hormones.

See also: chemotherapyChemotherapy (pronounced keem-o-therapy is the use of certain drugs to treat disease, as distinct from other forms of treatment, such as surgery. Chemotherapy dates at least as far back as the use, by the Indians of Peru, of cinchona bark in the treatment