In medicine, hormone therapy is the use of hormones in medical treatment and covers various types of hormones including growth hormones and sex hormones.

Types of hormone therapy include:

• hormone replacement therapy
• hormone treatment of Klinefelter's syndrome
• hormone treatment of Turner syndrome
• hormone replacement therapy in gender reassignment therapy
• treatment with growth hormone to treat growth hormone deficiency
• treatment with thyroid hormones in hypothyroidism
• 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 antagonists is also used: for example, the use of antiandrogens to suppress androgenic hormones.

See also: chemotherapy

Medical treatments