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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Michigan Reproductive Medicine, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States
UC Davis Sacramento Cancer Center Dept of Radiation Oncology, Sacramento, California, United States
Japan Breast Cancer Research Group, Chuo-ku, Nihonbashi, Koami-cho, Tokyo, Japan
Site NL31005 St. Antonius ziekenhuis, Nieuwegein, Netherlands
Site NL31004 Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Site NL31001 Canisius-Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Site: 1505, Bialystok, Poland
Site: 1508, Lublin, Poland
Site: 1509, Warsaw, Poland
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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