“Hi, I’m Dr Aaron Spitz. I’m a urologist at Orange County Urology Associates, and I’ve been prescribing LUPRON DEPOT as my first choice for the palliative treatment of patients with advanced prostate cancer for 23 years.

When a patient of mine needs an ADT for the palliative treatment of advanced prostate cancer, my first consideration is how appropriate the treatment is for that individual patient.

Of course, it has to be proven to work in clinical trials and in clinical practice, and it has to have an established safety profile. For my patients, it should also have multiple in-office dosing options to meet my individual patients’ needs—and so we can schedule regular monitoring.

It also has to be efficient and practical for my office to stock and administer—because that can affect the experience my patients will have while in my care, as well. LUPRON DEPOT fits all of these criteria and has done so for a long time. It’s the most prescribed ADT in my practice.

Patients with advanced prostate cancer can feel empowered when their treatment plan is guided by experience and expertise. We physicians empower our patients with the confidence they can place in our care and in the ADT we select.

For over 30 years, LUPRON DEPOT has been a market leader in ADT. It’s been a pioneer in the treatment of advanced prostate cancer by creating multiple dosing options and by developing delivery system innovations. This commitment, combined with decades of experience in using LUPRON DEPOT in my practice, continues to reinforce my confidence in prescribing it as my first choice for patients with advanced prostate cancer.

LUPRON DEPOT was the first to develop and demonstrate efficacy in 1-month, 3-month, and 4-month doses, and later a 6-month dosing option as well. While I have prescribed all dosing options, the 6-month dose is frequently prescribed in my practice.

I have a great deal of experience in the development of the 6-month dose: I participated as a researcher in the clinical trials for LUPRON DEPOT, and I was the lead author of an article published in the journal Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, which discussed the results of one trial.

In an open-label, noncomparative, multicenter study, LUPRON DEPOT demonstrated efficacy of the 6-month dose in achieving testosterone suppression at or below castrate levels for over 93% of patients from week 4 to week 48. It’s important to note that LUPRON DEPOT causes an initial increase in serum testosterone during the first weeks of treatment that may result in transient worsening of symptoms.

I have seen firsthand the benefit of the 6-month dose for certain patients in my practice. I had a patient who was fairly active into his 80s, traveling around for events where he walked to support several organizations. While this patient’s level of activity was unique, the option of getting his injections every 6 months allowed us to schedule his injections to accommodate his schedule and keep him compliant.

In many ways, the innovative delivery system that LUPRON DEPOT provides is appreciated, especially by our staff. Its design keeps both my team’s and the patient’s experience in mind.

It comes in a complete injection kit that includes a prefilled dual-chamber syringe, so there’s no external mixing required. It doesn’t have to be refrigerated, so it doesn’t take time to warm up before use, and the LuproLoc® safety device protects against accidental needlesticks. Plus, all doses have a fine, 23-gauge intramuscular needle.

In my experience, having everything my staff needs in a kit that’s ready to administer without delay helps make the process quick and efficient—and that’s something our patients value as well.”

“Hi, I’m Dr Benjamin Lowentritt. I’m a urologist at Chesapeake Urology, and I’ve been seeing patients for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer for 15 years. In my practice, each patient’s treatment plan is individualized to that specific patient, and when prescribing a GnRHa, my thoughts go to LUPRON DEPOT.

Early in my career, LUPRON DEPOT was ADT—the two were synonymous to me. In my mind, the fact that LUPRON DEPOT remains a market leader after more than 30 years speaks to a reassuring commitment to treating patients with advanced prostate cancer.

Drawing on my experience, and what I’ve observed from my colleagues, LUPRON DEPOT is still the ADT many of us reach for when treating patients with advanced prostate cancer. In my experience, it checks the boxes: an established efficacy and safety profile, flexible dosing options, and an innovative delivery system.

Each of the clinical studies for the 1, 3, 4, and 6-month doses has demonstrated efficacy in suppressing testosterone, so I know what to expect, and I can tailor the dosing schedule to one that fits my patient’s needs. I remember when the 4-month dose came to market in 1997, allowing patients to spread out their treatments over the course of a year. And, since 2011, the 6-month dose has added to that flexibility as well.

Treating each patient as an individual is so fundamental to the way we practice medicine in general and the way we manage patients with advanced prostate cancer. Having the flexibility of different dosing schedules is one way to individualize care depending on how stable a patient is with their therapy and how frequently I need to monitor their testosterone, PSA levels, and any side effects.

It’s important to note that LUPRON DEPOT is contraindicated in individuals with known hypersensitivity to GnRH agonists or any of the excipients in LUPRON DEPOT.

Whenever I test a patient’s PSA level, I also test and monitor their testosterone level. While this isn’t standard practice, testing both testosterone and PSA levels gives me a more complete picture of what’s going on with my patients.

In my experience, it’s as simple as adding the testosterone test to the same blood draw for the PSA test. Routinely monitoring testosterone helps me treat my patients more proactively because I can see any changes in testosterone levels before these changes may affect PSA levels. And I can monitor these results every time my patients visit the office for their ADT injections.

When it comes to administering LUPRON DEPOT, the first thing that comes to mind is how much our staff appreciates the innovative delivery system. It doesn’t have to be refrigerated, so it doesn’t take time to warm up before use. It comes in a complete injection kit that has a prefilled dual-chamber syringe, which requires no external mixing. And my staff definitely values the LuproLoc® safety system that helps prevent accidental needlesticks.

In our experience, patients also appreciate that LUPRON DEPOT uses a fine, 23-gauge, intramuscular needle And because it comes in a complete injection kit that has everything needed to administer, our staff finds the process quick and efficient.

Part of my approach is treating the patient as a whole, and part of that is helping them become informed. When I diagnose a patient with advanced prostate cancer, or when a patient comes to me after a recent diagnosis, they’re usually in a vulnerable place—worried, confused, and anxious about what comes next. The educational materials that AbbVie provides to my practice deliver key information for LUPRON DEPOT patients about their condition that they can refer to after they leave my office—at their own pace, on their own time.

Supporting patients with information they need at a critical time in their lives is an important part of empowering them to actively participate in their treatment.”

“Hello. My name is Larry.  I've been a professional chef for 40 years. One of my greatest passions is my home garden. I cook almost everything that comes out of there. I feel cooking brings me so much joy. It takes my mind off of what’s happening in life. 

Two years ago, I was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. My wife was with me when we went to the urologist, and when he came in – and really just sat down and said, "Hey, I have some bad news. You have stage 4 prostate cancer." After that you don't hear anything else. I didn't really know what he said after that, I was in such shock.

And at that point is when your body kind of shuts down, your mind shuts down, and you start anxiety and worrying. You hear the cancer word…

Both my children were in college and Thanksgiving was coming.  We were going to see them at Thanksgiving, so we decided to kind of get more information, process our self, and go through, get all the scans and see what's going on, get everything finalized before we would tell the children.

Right after diagnosis, to me, was the hardest part. You know what you have, but you're not quite sure of what the future is. 

So, you start getting anxiety, you start thinking about things.  You start thinking about, “am I going to see grandchildren, am I going to see my daughter get married, am I going to see my son get married?” Those are things that you start to get really upset about. 

Your emotions are running wild. So, I really think that first three month-period is a hard time because you don't understand the disease, you don't understand the treatment. I was lucky enough that my urologist has an advanced prostate cancer center and there's a nurse navigator there who took the time and actually met with my wife and I. 

She met us after hours at the office and she prepared a binder for us, and she went through the binder with my wife and I and explained this is the ADT treatment and this is what you're going to be on. 

I've been taking Lupron Depot for my advanced prostate cancer since shortly after my diagnosis.

The doctor talked to me about the side effects of the injection. He laid out the possible things that could happen and what were the most common. I started with the six-month dose. We wanted to test the PSA and the testosterone more often. So, I now get a three-month dose and I also get my testing of my testosterone at that time. 

Being a chef, I started looking at healthy recipes. I focus in on creating a meal that tastes great.  

I make something, people sit down, they eat it, we share it, they love it, and it makes them feel good. That makes me feel good.”

“My name is Don. I have two adult children and one grandchild. I’m married, been married for 35 years. I’m an army veteran of 25 years, and also a Department of the Army Civilian for 10 years.

What makes me really happy is spending time with my family. I also like to do a little golfing and some bowling with my family. When I’m doing those things, I basically forget about cancer and enjoy life.

This is my Thriver Fish. I need to find a way to have some calmness and insight in my life, so I wanted to get in to painting, and painting is something that brightens me up, and I even got one of my pieces that I had painted in a virtual show. It gets you through to thinking about something else other than all the stuff that you’re going through.

My history with prostate cancer begins with my father. He succumbed to prostate cancer in 2018. That was one month before I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. My uncles on my mother’s side, have had prostate cancer, so really prostate cancer is on both sides of my family.

In September 2017, I actually passed out at work, and so I was transported to the local hospital, where they ran many tests, but they couldn’t find out anything. When I went to the urologist, he noticed that the PSA was high. He told me that I had advanced prostate cancer.

I think I was in a state of shock, because I called my wife, I just blurted it out.

It really helps to have a care team that looks at you as a whole person and cares about you and knows your situation. Knowing that, it eased my anxiety. It kind of lifted me up and gave me a reason to want to move forward.

The discussion with my care team surrounded of which LUPRON DEPOT that I would take. Would I take the three-month LUPRON DEPOT or would I take the six-month LUPRON DEPOT?  And so, after all the information that my care team gave me, it was decided that I would take the six-month LUPRON DEPOT, and as my treatment got further along, we’ll reassess whether or not to stay at six months or go to a different length of period.

After I started Lupron Depot as my ADT, I’ve been able to keep my PSA and testosterone levels within the goal levels my doctors want.

I’m a mentor to honor my father, because he didn’t have a mentor. He had no one to tell him about prostate cancer. I thought that that would honor him, if I shared with other men the things that he didn’t have the opportunity for someone to share with him.”

Welcome to LuproLink®, an intuitive inventory management system that delivers important inventory data about your practice for LUPRON DEPOT (leuprolide acetate for depot suspension).

LuproLink® gives you easy access to important inventory data about your practice, including anticipating upcoming inventory needs with important patient and injection information.

LuproLink® uses a handheld barcode scanner to input kit information into the system. When an order of LUPRON DEPOT arrives, just point the LuproLink® handheld scanner at the shipping case label located within the box.  The scanner automatically enters all of the kits within the box.

LuproLink® lets you see data on every aspect of your inventory, so you can always be sure you have sufficient inventory on hand.  When your patient comes in for an injection, point the handheld scanner at the label on the patient’s kit.  Kit information will appear on screen.  Then you can begin the dispensing process. 

And with the patient dashboard, you know at a glance which patients are due for their next injection within the next 7 days. Built-in alerts let you know which are overdue or need special attention.  LuproLink® activity reports give you a variety of ways to monitor your LUPRON inventory.

With the new HCP dashboard, you can turn your LUPRON data into simple, intuitive visuals. Choose from multiple trend metrics for a comprehensive inventory history. You can schedule reports to automatically run at set intervals—and create a quick link, so you can return to a frequently used report quickly and easily from the home screen.

LuproLink’s enhanced reporting and data visualization give you a 360-degree view of your inventory. Join the LuproLink team today.