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Chlormadinone acetate (CMA), sold under the brand names Belara, Gynorelle, Lutéran, and Prostal among others, is a progestin and antiandrogen medication which is used in birth control pills to prevent pregnancy, as a component of menopausal hormone therapy, in the treatment of gynecological disorders, and in the treatment of androgen-dependent conditions like enlarged prostate and prostate ...
Certain progestogens, including megestrol acetate, medroxyprogesterone acetate, cyproterone acetate, and chlormadinone acetate, have been used at high doses to reduce hot flashes in men undergoing androgen deprivation therapy, for instance to treat prostate cancer. [24] [25] [26]
[84] [85] [7] [8] Aside from cyproterone acetate and chlormadinone acetate, a few other progestins used in oral contraceptives and/or in menopausal HRT including dienogest, drospirenone, medrogestone, nomegestrol acetate, promegestone, and trimegestone also have varying degrees of AR antagonistic activity. [86] [87] [88]
Estradiol/medroxyprogesterone acetate (Indivina, Tridestra) Estradiol/norethisterone acetate (Activella, Activelle, Cliane, Estalis, Eviana, Evorel, Kliogest, Novofem) Estradiol/norgestimate (Prefest) Estradiol/progesterone (Bijuva) Estradiol/trimegestone (Lovelle, Totelle) Estradiol valerate/cyproterone acetate (Climen, Climen 28)
Testosterone levels with 100 to 300 mg/day oral cyproterone acetate and low-dose oral estrogen in men. [160] The estrogen used was 0.1 mg/day diethylstilbestrol (DES), [160] which has been described as an "extremely low" dosage. [87] Levels of testosterone were decreased by about 95% with the combination and by about 61% with cyproterone ...
Cyproterone acetate (CPA), sold alone under the brand name Androcur or with ethinylestradiol under the brand names Diane or Diane-35 among others, is an antiandrogen and progestin medication used in the treatment of androgen-dependent conditions such as acne, excessive body hair growth, early puberty, and prostate cancer, as a component of feminizing hormone therapy for transgender individuals ...
Cyproterone, also known by its developmental code name SH-80881, is a steroidal antiandrogen which was studied in the 1960s and 1970s but was never introduced for medical use. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a precursor of cyproterone acetate (CPA), an antiandrogen, progestin , and antigonadotropin which was introduced instead of cyproterone and is ...
[1] [2] An acylated derivative, chlormadinone acetate, is used clinically as a pharmaceutical drug. [1] [2] It was patented in 1958 and approved for medical use in 1963. [3] While chlormadinone is sometimes used as a synonym for chlormadinone acetate, what is almost always being referred to is chlormadinone acetate and not chlormadinone.