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Clinical Trial Phase III Results
   
     
 

Produced a clinically significant decrease in serum PSA concentrations:

Serum PSA decreased in all patients after insertion. At six months PSA concentration decreased from baseline by at least 90 percent in 74.2 percent of the 97 evaluable patients.
  Androgen reduction success rate was 99 percent.  
  Testosterone was below the castrate threshold between weeks two and four in all but one patient, following the expected initial increase. Continuous androgen reduction in this patient occurred at week 28.  
  Once reduced, testosterone remained well below the castrate threshold for the duration of treatment.  
  Reduction was maintained following removal of the existing implant and insertion of a new implant, with no rise in testosterone.  
 
Further details about the 99% reduction success rate
 
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Important Safety Considerations
Viadur is contraindicated in patients with hypersensitivity to Gn-RH, Gn-RH agonist analogs, or any of the components in Viadur.

Viadur is contraindicated in women and pediatric patients and was not studied in women or children.

Viadur, like other LH-RH agonists, causes a transient increase in serum concentrations of testosterone during the first week of treatment. Patients may experience a worsening of symptoms or onset of new symptoms including bone pain, neuropathy, hematuria, or ureteral or bladder outlet obstruction, and spinal cord compression.

The most comment systemic side effects were hot flashes (67.9%), asthenia (7.6%), gynecomastia (6.9%), depression (5.3%), and sweating (5.3%). The most common local side effects were bruising (34.6%) and burning (5.6%).


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