Androcur

An antiandrogenic progestin, which acts specifically on androgen receptors.

Indications
Prostate cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia, priapism, hypersexuality, hirsutism (especially in male-to-female transgendered people), acne and hot flushes.

Androcur

A brand name for CYPROTERONE ACETATE.

Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005

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(8) O Androcur e um produto hormonal de efeito antiandrogenico, prescrito para homens e mulheres.

"Always too much of everything!": health production among transvestities and transsexuals/"Tudo e sempre de muito!": producao de saude entre travestis e transexuais

(64.) Miller, supra note 52, at 182 (citing Gavin Tennent, Review of Research Into the Use of Drugs and the Treatment of Sexual Deviations With Special Reference to the Use of Cyproterone Acetate (Androcur), in GUIDELINES FOR THE USE OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS 411 (Harvey C.

The case for castration: a "shot" towards rehabilitation of sexual offenders

Perverts will be given androcur tablets and injections of leuprorelin, Both cut testosterone levels.

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