Hormones (oestrogen, progesterone or both) given to women after menopause. Used to ease symptoms of menopause.

Drugs used to treat women who have hormone receptors on their breast cancer cells. Also called endocrine therapies.

A substance that affects how your body works. Some hormones control growth, others control reproduction. They are distributed around the body through the bloodstream.

Refers to physical, social, emotional, and cultural wellbeing.

Human immunodeficiency virus.

A protein on a cell that allows a growth factor to bind to the cell, causing the cell to grow and divide. HER2 is also called HER2-neu or c-erbB2.

A health-related change due to a preventive or clinical intervention or service. The intervention may be single or multiple, and the outcome may relate to a person, group or population, or be partly or wholly due to the intervention.

A doctor who specialises in treating diseases of the female reproductive system.

A score that describes how quickly the tumour is likely to grow.

General practitioners diagnose, refer and treat the health problems of individuals and families in the community. Also, commonly referred to as family doctors.