Hormone Therapy & Immunotherapy
Hormone therapy and immunotherapy are treatment options that work with your body to slow cancer growth and strengthen your ability to fight it.
Advancing the Way We Treat Cancer
For many years, cancer treatment centered on chemotherapy and radiation—powerful tools that target cancer but can also affect healthy tissue.
Today, with the advancement of immunotherapy and hormone therapy, our cancer specialists can help your body recognize and attack cancer cells more precisely. These treatments also support shrinking hormone-sensitive tumors while limiting damage to healthy cells.
Our Targeted Cancer Treatments
Immunotherapy is a form of biologic treatment that helps your immune system better recognize and attack cancer cells. At Broward Health, our experts use this advanced therapy to treat blood cancers such as:
- Hodgkin lymphoma
- Multiple myeloma
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
This personalized approach often involves removing white blood cells, modifying them to better target cancer, then returning them to your body. These trained cells act as a focused defense—attacking cancer while sparing more of your healthy cells.
Immunotherapy may be used on its own or alongside other treatments, with benefits that may include:
- Fewer side effects compared to chemotherapy or radiation
- Slowing or stopping cancer cell growth
- Preventing cancer from spreading to other parts of the body
Checkpoint proteins help your immune system tell the difference between healthy cells and harmful ones. But sometimes, cancer cells use these proteins to avoid detection, allowing them to grow unchecked.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors block this process, helping your immune system recognize and destroy cancer cells more effectively.
These treatments are used for certain blood cancers like Hodgkin lymphoma, as well as solid tumors, including:
- Breast cancer
- Bladder cancer
- Cervical cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Head and neck cancer
- Liver cancer
- Lung cancer
- Skin cancer
- Stomach cancer
Side effects vary depending on your health, but common symptoms may include:
- Diarrhea
- Fatigue
- Skin Rashes
Antibody-drug conjugates are one of the newest forms of immunotherapy used to target and treat metastatic cancer. At Broward Health, our experts are using ADCs to deliver powerful cancer-fighting drugs directly to tumor cells—while limiting damage to healthy tissue.
Think of it like a Trojan horse: monoclonal antibodies are introduced through an IV, then bind to proteins on the surface of cancer cells. Once attached, they deliver a targeted therapy directly into the cell to damage or destroy it.
We currently use ADCs to help treat:
- Breast cancer
- Lymphoma
- Multiple myeloma
As a newer therapy, ADC may not be right for everyone. Talk to your cancer care team to learn if it’s an option for you.
Hormone therapy at Broward Health is used to treat hormone receptor–positive (HR+) breast cancers, often alongside chemotherapy or radiation. It’s not the same as hormone replacement therapy.
HR+ cancers grow in response to estrogen or progesterone. Hormone therapy—also called endocrine therapy—works by blocking your body’s ability to produce these hormones, effectively starving the cancer and slowing or stopping its growth.
We use hormone therapy in several ways:
- Adjuvant therapy to reduce the risk of cancer returning after primary treatment
- Neoadjuvant therapy to shrink tumors before surgery or radiation
- Ongoing treatment to help manage metastatic or recurring HR+ breast cancer
Why Choose Broward Health for Immunotherapy or Hormone Therapy
At Broward Health, we provide personalized cancer care that fits your diagnosis, supports your health goals, and respects your daily life. Our team works closely with you to build a treatment plan tailored to your needs—because we’re more than providers, we’re your partners in care.
Immunotherapy and hormone therapy treatments are available at our Infusion Centers at Broward Health Medical Center and Broward Health North. These centers offer a calm, patient-centered setting, supported by a multidisciplinary team that includes chemotherapy-certified nurses and medical assistants.
We also offer a full range of support services for patients receiving cancer treatment, including:
- Social work
- Financial counseling
- Oncology dietitians
- Rehabilitation therapy
- Palliative care
- Genetic testing and counseling
As the only academic medical center in Broward County, we collaborate regularly with Florida Atlantic University and the University of Florida to bring you access to the latest treatments and research—right here at home.
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