61.   The study also supports the theory that hormone replacement therapy at menopause may help prolong life, the researchers say.

62.   The women are participants of PEPI, the largest clinical trial of how hormone therapies affect postmenopausal women.

63.   Their report, financed by the National Institutes of Health and a private foundation in Italy, found some clear benefits from hormone therapy.

64.   The treatments covered under the bill include hormone drug therapy, artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization and gamete and embryo donation.

65.   The ubiquity of hormone therapy is neither accidental nor necessarily harmful, contends Love.

66.   Their survival rate exceeded that of those who got radioactive implants, even if the implant group also got hormone therapy.

67.   These substances, called insulin-like growth factors or IGFs, are being measured more and more to evaluate the need for hormone therapy.

68.   Thompson is also trying to determine whether interrupting long-term hormone therapy might actually improve outcome for patients.

69.   Transsexuals are people who have undergone hormone therapy or surgery or both to transform from male to female or vice versa.

70.   Treatments include surgery, radiation, hormone therapy and chemotherapy.