Flutamide Overview

Flutamide Guide

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  • Summary
  • About Your Treatment
  • Important Warning
  • Brand Names
  • Overdose
  • Precautions
  • Possible Side Effects
  • Storage Conditions

About Your Treatment

Your doctor has ordered the drug flutamide to help treat your illness. The drug (in capsule form) is taken by mouth.

This medication is used to treat:

  • prostate cancer

This medication is sometimes prescribed for other uses; ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.

Flutamide is in a class of drugs known as antiandrogens. It blocks the activity of testosterone, a hormone produced by the body.


Important Warning

Flutamide can cause liver failure that could lead to death. Keep all appointments with your doctor and the laboratory. Your doctor will order lab tests to check ...


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Encyclopedia: Flutamide

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Flutamide is an oral antiandrogen drug primarily used to treat prostate cancer. It competes with testosterone and its powerful metabolite, dihydrotestosterone for binding to androgen receptors in the prostate gland. By doing so, it prevents them from stimulating the prostate cancer cells to grow. Flutamide has been largely replaced by a newer member of this class, bicalutamide, due to a better side-effect profile. Flutamide may also be used to treat...


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what is the side effect of flutamide?
IT IS ANDROGEN ANTAGONIST.

Treatment with antiandrogens exhibits "fewer hot flashes, less of an effect on libido, less muscle wasting, fewer personality changes, and less bone loss." Flutamide may also induce gynecomastia. Tamoxifen can partially...

Asked by amir20abtahi - 18 months ago

Can I take all these drugs at the same time?
Hi, I'm 19 yrs old, female, and I'm taking these medications.. *Birth control: Diane-35 (35 mcg...

In short, yes you can take all these drugs at the same time....However, you need to avoid grapefruit and grapefruit juice containing products, caffeine, tobacco, and alcohol....Don't cut any of...

Asked by Anna - 3 months ago

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    I think there is only one topical flutamide left on the market and that's genhair flutamide gel 2 %? Anybody still using it? Any sides? I just read that 14 years study of people taking flutamide 300mg

    Jun 25, 2008

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