Hormone therapy

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
Synonymous names:	Endocrine therapy, hormonal therapy
METEOR identifier:	439580
Registration status:	Health, Standard 07/12/2011
Definition:	The treatment of disease with hormones obtained from endocrine glands or substances that stimulate hormonal effects.

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Cancer Australia
Reference documents:	Myers T (Editor) 2009. Mosby’s Medical Dictionary , 8^th Edition. Missouri: Mosby Elsevier page 890
Relational attributes
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Cancer treatment—hormone therapy completion date Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—hormone therapy completion date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—hormone therapy start date Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—hormone therapy start date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—systemic therapy agent or protocol, eviQ protocol identifier NNNNNN Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—systemic therapy agent or protocol, eviQ protocol identifier NNNNNN Health, Superseded 08/05/2014 Hormone therapy start date Health, Standard 07/12/2011 Lung cancer (clinical) DSS Health, Superseded 14/05/2015 Lung cancer (clinical) NBPDS Health, Standard 14/05/2015