Abarelix - a-ba-REL-iks is a type of drug called a gonadotropin-releasing hormone - GnRH antagonist that lowers the male hormone testosterone in your blood. Testosterone makes most prostate cancers grow. Other ways to treat your prostate cancer are taking other hormone medication to lower testosterone or surgery to remove your testicles. Abarelix is using when these other ways to treat prostate cancer can't be using or are refusing.
Abarelix is to be given only under the supervision of your family doctor. It is to be injected into a muscle and is available in the following dosage form:
Some commonly using brand names are:
In the USA
† Not commercially available in Canada.