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New term request: prophylactic cancer hormone treatment #142

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CDowland opened this issue Jul 13, 2020 · 0 comments
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New term request: prophylactic cancer hormone treatment #142

CDowland opened this issue Jul 13, 2020 · 0 comments

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Editor preferred term: prophylactic cancer hormone treatment

Alternative term: adjuvant cancer hormone treatment

Textual definition: A prophylactic hormone treatment that has some objective to negatively regulate the realizations of some predisposition to cancer borne by some person, by preventing the production of, or interfering with the actions of, some hormone whose actions can positively regulate the realization of that predisposition to cancer.

Definition source: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/hormone-therapy#THT

Parent class: prophylactic hormone treatment

Example of usage: Jill received prophylactic cancer hormone treatment because she was at high risk of developing breast cancer.

Term editor: S. Clint Dowland

Contributor: William R. Hogan

Contributor: Matthew Diller

I'm also attaching a spreadsheet that displays the term request in a different format.
NTR - prophylactic cancer hormone treatment.xlsx

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