Leuprolide Acetate Kit
NDC 72843-591
Product Information
Leuprolide Acetate is a ANDA-approved product labeled by Ubi Pharma Inc.. Leuprolide is used to treat advanced prostate cancer in men. It is supplied as a kit for subcutaneous administration. This product entry covers the primary NDC 72843-591 and its associated package configuration. This profile includes active and inactive ingredient UNII references and FDA labeling data.
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Product Details
What is NDC 72843-591?
What are the uses of this product?
Which are the associated UNII Codes?
The UNII codes for the active ingredients in this product are:
- LEUPROLIDE ACETATE (UNII: 37JNS02E7V)
- LEUPROLIDE (UNII: EFY6W0M8TG) (Active Moiety)
- ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL (UNII: ND2M416302)
- ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL (UNII: ND2M416302) (Active Moiety)
Which are the Inactive Ingredients associated UNII Codes?
The inactive ingredients are all the component of a medicinal product OTHER than the active ingredient(s). The acronym "UNII" stands for “Unique Ingredient Identifier” and is used to identify each inactive ingredient present in a product. The UNII codes for the inactive ingredients in this product are:
- ACETIC ACID (UNII: Q40Q9N063P)
- BENZYL ALCOHOL (UNII: LKG8494WBH)
- SODIUM CHLORIDE (UNII: 451W47IQ8X)
- SODIUM HYDROXIDE (UNII: 55X04QC32I)
- WATER (UNII: 059QF0KO0R)
What is the NDC to RxNorm Crosswalk for this product?
- RxCUI: 545835 - leuprolide acetate 1 MG/0.2 ML (5 MG/ML) Injectable Solution
- RxCUI: 545835 - leuprolide acetate 5 MG/ML Injectable Solution
- RxCUI: 545835 - leuprolide acetate 1 MG per 0.2 ML Injectable Solution
- RxCUI: 797544 - isopropyl alcohol 70 % Medicated Pad
- RxCUI: 797544 - isopropyl alcohol 0.7 ML/ML Medicated Pad
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Patient Education
Leuprolide Injection
Leuprolide injection is used to treat symptoms associated with advanced prostate cancer central precocious puberty (CPP; a condition causing girls [usually younger than 8 years of age] and boys [usually younger than 9 years of age] to enter puberty too soon, resulting in faster than normal bone growth and development of sexual characteristics) endometriosis (a condition in which the type of tissue that lines the uterus [womb] grows in other areas of the body and causes pain, heavy or irregular menstruation [periods], and other symptoms) anemia (a lower-than-normal number of red blood cells) caused by uterine fibroids (noncancerous growths in the uterus). Leuprolide injection is in a class of medications called gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists. It works by decreasing the amount of certain hormones in the body.
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Cancer Chemotherapy
What is cancer chemotherapy?
Cancer chemotherapy is a type of cancer treatment. It uses medicines to destroy cancer cells.
Normally, the cells in your body grow and die in a controlled way. Cancer cells keep growing without control. Chemotherapy works by killing the cancer cells, stopping them from spreading, or slowing their growth.
Chemotherapy is used to:
- Treat cancer by curing the cancer, lessening the chance it will return, or stopping or slowing its growth.
- Ease cancer symptoms by shrinking tumors that are causing pain and other problems.
What are the side effects of chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy does not just destroy cancer cells. It can also harm some healthy cells, which causes side effects.
You may have a lot of side effects, some side effects, or none at all. It depends on the type and amount of chemotherapy you get and how your body reacts.
Some common side effects are:
- Mouth sores
- Fatigue
- Nausea and vomiting
- Pain
- Hair loss
There are ways to prevent or control some side effects. Talk with your health care provider about how to manage them. Healthy cells usually recover after chemotherapy is over, so most side effects gradually go away.
What can I expect when getting chemotherapy?
You may get chemotherapy in a hospital or at home, a doctor's office, or a medical clinic. You might be given the medicines by mouth, in a shot, as a cream, through a catheter, or intravenously (by IV).
Your treatment plan will depend on the type of cancer you have, which chemotherapy medicines are used, the treatment goals, and how your body responds to the medicines.
Chemotherapy may be given alone or with other treatments. You may get treatment every day, every week, or every month. You may have breaks between treatments so that your body has a chance to build new healthy cells.
NIH: National Cancer Institute
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