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2. Leuprorelin - Wikipedia

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   Lupron injection was approved by the FDA for treatment of advanced prostate cancer on 9 April 1985. [45] [4] [43] [44] Lupron depot for monthly intramuscular injection was approved by the FDA for palliative treatment of advanced prostate cancer on 26 January 1989. [8]

3. Androgen deprivation therapy - Wikipedia

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   Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), also called androgen ablation therapy or androgen suppression therapy, is an antihormone therapy whose main use is in treating prostate cancer. Prostate cancer cells usually require androgen hormones, such as testosterone, to grow. ADT reduces the levels of androgen hormones, with drugs or surgery, to prevent ...

4. Flutamide - Wikipedia

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   Flutamide, sold under the brand name Eulexin among others, is a nonsteroidal antiandrogen (NSAA) which is used primarily to treat prostate cancer. [9] [10] It is also used in the treatment of androgen-dependent conditions like acne, excessive hair growth, and high androgen levels in women. [11]

5. TAP Pharmaceuticals - Wikipedia

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   TAP Pharmaceuticals was formed in 1977 as a joint venture between the two global pharmaceutical companies, Abbott Laboratories and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and was dissolved in 2008; its two most lucrative products were proton-pump inhibitor lansoprazole (Prevacid) and the prostate cancer drug, leuprorelin (Lupron). [1]

6. Management of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   Surgical removal of the prostate, or prostatectomy, is a common treatment either for early-stage prostate cancer or for cancer that has failed to respond to radiation therapy. The most common type is radical retropubic prostatectomy , when the surgeon removes the prostate through an abdominal incision.

7. Medical uses of bicalutamide - Wikipedia

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   Bicalutamide is used primarily in the treatment of early and advanced prostate cancer. [1] It is approved at a dosage of 50 mg/day as a combination therapy with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue (GnRH analogue) or orchiectomy (that is, surgical or medical castration) in the treatment of stage D2 metastatic prostate cancer (mPC), [2] [3] and as a monotherapy at a dosage of 150 mg/day ...