Background: Testicular cancer accounts for about 1 - 1.5% of all malignancies in men. Radical orchiectomy is curative in 75% of patients with stage I disease, but advance stage with retroperitoneal lymph node involvement needs chemotherapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists initiate androgen deprivation in treating prostate cancer (PC). Triptorelin is a synthetic GnRH and many of its market brands such as Diphereline have been introduced so far.
Objectives: We compared the efficacy of a sustained-release formulation of Triptorelin (Microrelin), domestically produced in Iran, and compared it with Diphereline in a double-blinded randomized clinical trial.