Definition of "leuprolide" [leuprolide]

• Leuprorelin (noun)

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• "Dr. Richard Bowen, a family practitioner in Florida, stumbled on the approach when a patient noted that her husband's Alzheimer's hadn't worsened for five years, since he had begun taking a hormone treatment called leuprolide for his prostate cancer."
• "Unlike luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonists, such as leuprolide, an established treatment for prostate cancer, FIRMAGON does not induce an initial testosterone surge."
• "(LHRH) agonists, such as leuprolide, an established treatment for prostate cancer, FIRMAGON does not induce an initial testosterone surge."