Can hormone therapy fight and cure cancer?

Can hormone therapy fight and cure cancer?

Does hormonal therapy cure or help fight cancer? I think that is true; I think we utilize antihormonal therapy. I think it's important to mention that it's not necessarily treating with hormones, but blocking hormones with agents that block these hormones from being present or being made in the body. They all work to fight cancer; whether it is prostate cancer or breast cancer, they are there to prevent growth of tumor cells. The bigger question is, do they kill tumor cells or do they just prevent them from growing. I think the majority of people believe that hormonal therapy is a static therapy. When I say "static," I mean that it keeps cells where they are but it doesn't necessarily destroy them; and it keeps them from growing. So in terms of curing, I think we're pretty far away from hormone therapy, or antihormonal therapy—curing cancer, but we're there in terms of helping fight cancer. When it comes to metastatic breast cancer, where we use antihormone therapy a lot, we are able to extend women's' lives for over two to three years just with antihormonal therapy alone, without the option or necessity to proceed with chemotherapy in a select group of patients.