leuprolide

Leuprolide injection is used to treat certain types of prostate cancer central precocious puberty (CPP; a condition causing children 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 infertility, pain before and during menstrual periods, pain during and after sexual activity, and heavy, irregular bleeding) anemia (a lower-than-normal number of red blood cells) caused by uterine fibroids (growths in the uterus that are not cancer). 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.