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Abstract The exacerbated consumption of products in recent years has generated a discharge of wastes with characteristics that are increasingly harmful to the public, animal, and environmental health. Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds (EDCs) are inserted in these wastes as recalcitrant chemicals and have been widely detected in water and wastewater treatment plants. Conventional treatment systems are not efficient for removing EDCs due to the marked persistence of these compounds. Thus, several studies have been based on alternative methods of removal, such as the Advanced Oxidative Processes (AOPs), which are promising due to the generation of highly reactive species such as hydroxyl radicals, capable of degrading partially or totally the EDCs. Thus, this review presents a background of endocrine disruptors including classification, analytical methods of detection and quantification, as well as the technologies employed in the removal of these compounds, with emphasis on advanced oxidative processes (AOPs). For this, we evaluated the main publications of the last decade (2010–2020) that addressed AOPs as a method of removal for EDCs. We also reviewed the main treatment points based on photocatalysis, photolysis, ozonation, sonolysis and Fenton, as well as combined treatments. More than 1000 scientific documents of Scopus' database were searched, of which 70.89% were about separated processes and 29.11% about combined processes. Future prospects in the area of study and application were also highlighted.