Leuprolide is a synthetic 9-residue peptide analogue of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH). Unlike the endogenous decapeptide GnRH, leuprolide contains a single D-amino acid (D-leucyl) residue, which helps to increase its circulating half-life from three to four minutes to approximately three hours. As a GnRH mimic, leuprolide is capable of binding to the...
Leuprolide is indicated for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer and as palliative treatment of advanced prostate cancer.
It is also used for the treatment of pediatric patients with central precocious puberty (CPP).
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Guangdong People's Hospital, Guangzhou, China
Guangzhou First Municipal People's Hospital, Guangzhou, China
Maoming People's Hospital, Maoming, China
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States
University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, California, United States
John Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Commack, Commack, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth, Middletown, New Jersey, United States
Jazrawi-Atallah, P.C., Brooklyn, New York, United States
Albemarle Urology Clinic, PA, Albemarle, North Carolina, United States
Raj P. Chopra MD, PC, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Fakultna nemocnica Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia
Erlanger Health System, Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
J. Giddens Medicine Professional Corporation, Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Juravinski Cancer Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
University Health Network, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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