Zoladex®, goserelin, is anti cancer drug, belongs to a group of medicines called: LHRH analogues.
Therapeutic activity
Information for men:
- For treatment of prostate cancer. Zoladex works by lowering the levels of 2 testosterone, a hormone produced by the body.
Information for women:
- In women, Zoladex works by lowering the levels of estrogen, a hormone produced by the body.
- For treatment of breast cancer in premenopausal women.
- For treatment of endometriosis – a disease of the womb lining (a condition where pain is caused by excess tissue which grows within or outside of the womb).
- Helps fertility by preparing for superovulation.
- Uterine fibroids (benign growths that appear in the womb), to decrease the size of fibroids before surgery.
- Prethinning of the womb lining before surgery.
