Xtandi Medication for Prostate Cancer

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Where can I buy Xtandi?

Xtandi is only available in specialty pharmacies or at your doctor’s office. Specialty pharmacies are similar to traditional pharmacies that you’re used to. However, specialty pharmacies offer additional services for people. These pharmacies typically focus on chronic (long-term) or complex conditions, such as cancer.

What is Xtandi used for?

XTANDI is a prescription medicine used to treat men with prostate cancer that: has not spread to other parts of the body and responds to a hormone therapy or surgical treatment to lower testosterone, and who are at high risk of cancer spreading to other parts of the body. It is not known if XTANDI is safe and effective in females or children.

How do you take Xtandi?

Take XTANDI exactly as your doctor tells you. Take your prescribed dose once a day, at the same time each day. XTANDI can be taken with or without food. Swallow XTANDI capsules or tablets whole. Do not chew, dissolve, or open the capsules. Do not cut, crush or chew the tablets. Your doctor may change your dose if needed.

What is enzalutamide (Xtandi®)?

Enzalutamide (Xtandi®) is a type of hormone therapy for men with prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body ( advanced prostate cancer ). Enzalutamide works by blocking the effect of the hormone testosterone on prostate cancer cells.

When is Xtandi used?

Xtandi is used when prostate cancer no longer responds to hormone therapy or surgical treatment. Xtandi is also used when prostate cancer has spread to other parts of the body, and it responds to hormone therapy or surgical treatment to lower testosterone.

Is Xtandi a treatment for prostate cancer?

It is a treatment for prostate cancer. It is also known as Xtandi. you are having androgen deprivation therapy and your cancer has spread to other parts of the body your cancer has spread to parts of the body and other hormone treatments have stopped working, but you have no or mild symptoms and do not need chemotherapy

Does enzalutamide (Xtandi) help treat prostate cancer?

The number of treatment options for prostate cancer has exploded over the last decade. That trend is showing no signs of letting up, with the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent decision to expand the approved uses of enzalutamide (Xtandi) to treat people with prostate cancer that hasn’t spread, or metastasized, to other parts of the body.

What Is Xtandi

1. https://www.xtandi.com/
2. https://prostatecanceruk.org/prostate-information-and-support/treatments/enzalutamide
3. https://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support/treatments-and-drugs/enzalutamide
4. https://www.drugs.com/xtandi.html
5. https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/treatment/drugs/enzalutamide
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzalutamide
7. https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2024/fda-xtandi-prostate-cancer-psa-recurrence
8. https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/xtandi
9. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326429

Xtandi Information

1. https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/files/pil.10318.pdf
2. https://patient-info.co.uk/xtandi-70570/patient-leaflet