Abiraterone
anticancer hormone therapy
Nothing to addWhat this medicine is for
Abiraterone belongs to the “anticancer hormone therapy” category. This treatment acts on the hormones that stimulate certain tumours, in the management of hormone-dependent cancers.
Specifically, for Abiraterone: Treats a hormone-dependent cancer. It is most often a long-term treatment, taken at regular times over long periods; its benefit is judged over time, not by how you feel on a given day.
Under which brands it is found
Abiraterone is used in about 15 presentations listed in France. It is available under several brand names and as generics.
- Abiraterone Accord
- Abiraterone Acetate Zydus
- Abiraterone Arrow
- Abiraterone Biogaran
- Abiraterone Cristers
- Abiraterone Eg
- Abiraterone Evolugen
- Abiraterone Krka
- and other presentations
Original brand-name products and generics deliver the same active substance; the choice between them is made with your doctor or pharmacist.
Do you need a supplement? No.
We put forward no supplement for Abiraterone: that would be forcing a need that does not exist. The great majority of medicines call for no particular supplementation, and acknowledging this is part of the way we work. We design a supplement only where the data support it, across five specific classes.
Talk about it in the community
Others are on the same treatment and share their daily life: what they feel, their questions, the little routines they set up. You read lived experience here, not recommendations.
Related molecules
To explore in the « Other areas » family and its neighbours.