7.50mg

Lectrum

Lectrum 7.5mg Lyophilized for injection

Leuprolide

AGP (PRIVATE) LTD.

Drug Identity

Active Ingredient

Leuprolide

Drug Class

Pituitary And Hypothalamic Hormones And Analogues

What is Lectrum?

Uses

Leuprolide injection (Eligard, Lupron Depot) is used to treat the symptoms associated with advanced prostate cancer . Leuprolide injectio...

How It Works

Single-use kit: For a single IM injection. Prefilled dual-chamber syringe: Remove the needle guard and advance the plunger to expel air from the sy-ringe. Inject the entire contents of the syringe IM (Lupron) or SC (Eligard) as for a normal injection. Injection: Vary the injection site periodically. Use the syringes provided in the kit, if alternate syringes are needed, use insulin syringes. Depot-Ped: Must be administered under physician supervision as a single IM injection. Injection: May be administered by a patient/parent or healthcare provider as a single SC injection.

How to Take It

Adult · IM

3.75 mg — As recommended.

Endometriosis This dose should be administer monthly or 11.25 mg should be given every 3 months. (depot preparation).

Adult · SC

1 mg/day — As recommended.

Advanced Prostate Cancer

Safety Alerts

Undiagnosed vaginal bleeding

Important Warnings

Diabetes, family history of osteoporosis, patients with metabolic bone disease (decrease in bone mineral density can occur), risk of spinal cord compression in men with prostate cancer, risk of ureteric obstruction in men with prostate cancer

Use barrier contraceptive

Caution with chronic use of other drugs which reduce bone density including alcohol and tobacco

To-reduce risk of flare on initial therapy, an anti-androgen may be administered 3 days before therapy and continued for 2-3 weeks

Patients at risk of ureteric obstruction and spinal cord compression

monitor in first few weeks and consider anti-androgens

In treatment of uterine fibroids, confirm diagnosis and exclude an ovarian mass before starting therapy

Warn patients of possibility of abnormal bleeding or pain due to acute degeneration of submucous fibroids

Side Effects

Altered glucose tolerance and blood lipidsanaphylaxisanorexiaasthmabreast tenderness (males and females)changes in blood pressurebreast size and scalp and body hairchillsdecrease in trabecular bone densitydepressiondiarrhoeadizzinessdyspareuniafatiguefever

Drug Interactions

Leuprolide can cause a serious heart problem. Your risk may be higher if you also use certain other medicines for infections

asthma

heart problems

high blood pressure

depression

mental illness

cancer

malaria

Pregnancy & Lactation

Pregnancy

Contraindicated in pregnancy.

Lactation

Contraindicated, avoid

Storage

Inj Store at room temperature. Do not Freeze. Protect from Sunlight and Heat.

Price Intelligence

Rs 28,231.23

DRAP approved maximum price · per unit · approved 23 Jul, 2026

No retail price observed for this pack. Retailers may not exceed the approved maximum.

Prices across sources

DRAPper unitRs 28,231.23

Should you consider an alternative?

Other options containing Leuprolide, and what they are not.

These contain this ingredient plus others. They are different medicines — do not swap.

Leugon

11.25mg

Rs 43,371.39

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Leugon

10.72mg

Rs 43,371.39 ceiling

No DRAP alertsHimmel Pharmaceuticals Private Limited

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