Indication:
- Cyproterone acetate belongs to a group of drugs called antiandrogens. This means that it suppresses the action of male sex hormones (androgens). It also reduces the amount of male sex hormones produced by the body.
- Medicine is administered.
- For men:
- to relieve symptoms of prostate cancer if secondary tumors have formed and if treatment with other drugs that reduce the level of androgens in the body (LHRH-like substances) or surgical removal of the tumor is unsuccessful, impossible or undesirable.
- for the treatment of symptoms (redness of the skin) that may occur in men as a result of hormonal treatment with substances similar to LHRH.
- for the treatment of hot flashes that may occur during treatment with other drugs for prostate cancer or after surgical castration in men.
- to control libido in adult men with increased sexual desire (hypersexuality) and/or altered sexual desire.
- For women:
- for the treatment of severe symptoms of masculinization in women (such as unwanted hair growth, alopecia, acne).
- For men:
