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megestrol

 [mĕ-jes´trōl]
a synthetic progestational agent administered orally as an antineoplastic agent for palliative treatment of recurrent, inoperable, or metastatic carcinoma of the breast or endometrium and for the treatment of anorexia, cachexia, and weight loss in patients with cancer or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

megestrol

A PROGESTOGEN drug used to assist in the treatment of breast or endometrial cancer. A brand name is Megace.
Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005
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Fenstermaker, "Intracranial meningiomas in patients with uterine sarcoma treated with long-term megestrol acetate therapy," World Neurosurgery, vol.
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The company said the Megestrol Acetate Oral Suspension is the generic version of MegaceES by Strativa Pharmaceuticals, a division of Par Pharmaceutical Inc.
We found inpatients aged 80 years or older have more PIM use and encounter more potential inappropriate prescription of benzodiazepines, drugs with strong anticholinergic properties, megestrol, antipsychotics, theophylline, and aspirin than patients aged 65-79 years.
Treatment with nandrolone decanoate and megestrol acetate in HIV-infected men.
AS PART OF ITS NEW WOMEN'S WELLNESS INITIATIVE, representatives of Schnucks Pharmacies have made four different oral breast cancer medications (Letrozole, Megestrol, Anastrozole and Tamoxifen) available for only $9 with a prescription.
Eleven of those 25 were black, and 10 were taking megestrol acetate (Megace), a synthetic progesterone then prescribed to stimulate appetite in people with HIV but now rarely used by HIV-positive people.
(52) However, co-administration of megestrol acetate, a potent progesterone receptor agonist, reversed the abortifacient effect.
And megestrol (a progestin drug) treatment has produced some efficacy in advanced HCC in some clinical studies [18, 19].
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