SUPPORTING YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH LUPRON DEPOT

Not an actual patient.

Dedicated to supporting your patients through  
innovative resources and programs.

Support PLUS offers resources for you and your patients

Support PLUS Specialist* for patients

When you enroll your patients in the Support PLUS Program, they will be assigned a dedicated Support PLUS Specialist, who can:

Serve as your patients’ personal contact for 1-on-1 support, as often as they need it
Help them understand what to expect when taking LUPRON DEPOT and how it works
Encourage patients to talk openly with their physicians
Provide information about advanced prostate cancer
Connect them to resources for insurance support
Share information about how to find additional support in the prostate cancer community

Benefits Verification

Let Support PLUS handle benefit verification for you. With Support PLUS, you will receive:

Patient benefit investigations
Precertification and prior authorization management
Reimbursement support
Claims appeal assistance

Whether it’s Medicare Advantage or private insurance, we support you and your office by helping to manage the procurement process. That leaves you free to keep your focus where you want it—on your patients.

*Support PLUS Specialists are provided by AbbVie and do not work under the direction of a healthcare professional (HCP) or give medical advice. They are trained to direct patients to speak with their HCP for treatment-related advice, including further referrals.

SUPPORT PLUS ENROLLMENT FORM
Or contact your AbbVie Sales Representative to learn more.

Physician and Patient Resources

CPT	J-CODE	ICD-10 CODE	Product
96402	J9217	Malignant neoplasm of prostate (C61)	LUPRON DEPOT
Q0083 OPPS

Dosing Option	NDC CODE
7.5 mg for 1-month administration	0074-3642-03
22.5 mg for 3-month administration	0074-3346-03
30 mg for 4-month administration	0074-3683-03
45 mg for 6-month administration	0074-3473-03

Patient Support and Education

Resources available through your AbbVie Sales Representative

100 Questions & Answers About Prostate Cancer by Pamela Ellsworth, MD
Lupron Depot^®: Understanding Advanced Prostate Cancer / Designed With Your Experience in Mind
Promoting Wellness for Prostate Cancer Patients by Mark Moyad, MD
Understanding Prostate Cancer: A Guide to Treatment and Support–brochures are available in English and Spanish

These resources are available through your AbbVie Sales Representative

Video Library

Hear From Dr Spitz

Dr Aaron Spitz provides insights into his experiences using LUPRON DEPOT and why it's often his ADT of choice when treating patients with advanced prostate cancer.

Dr Aaron Spitz is a board-certified urologist at Orange County Urology Associates and has been practicing urology for over 21 years.

"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 treatment of patients with advanced prostate cancer for 23 years.

When a patient of mine needs an ADT for the 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."

Meet Larry and Don, LUPRON DEPOT Patients

Larry and Don share their experiences living with advanced prostate cancer and taking LUPRON DEPOT

Meet Larry—husband, father, professional chef

Larry opens up about the anxiety he felt after his diagnosis, his positive relationship with his care team, and how his passion for cooking has helped him through it all.

"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 ourself, 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 3-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 6-month dose. We wanted to test the PSA and the testosterone more often. So, I now get a 3-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."

Meet Don—father, grandfather, army veteran

Don reveals the shock of his diagnosis, his role as a mentor in the prostate cancer community, and how his new-found interest in painting helps him cope with stress.

"My name is Don. I have 2 adult children and 1 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 into 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 which LUPRON DEPOT that I would take. Would I take the 3-month LUPRON DEPOT or would I take the 6-month LUPRON DEPOT? And so, after all the information that my care team gave me, it was decided that I would take the 6-month LUPRON DEPOT, and as my treatment got further along, we’ll reassess whether or not to stay at 6 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."

LuproLink^®and Administration Resources

LuproLink®

LuproLink^® is an intuitive inventory management system that helps deliver important LUPRON DEPOT inventory data about your practice. See what LuproLink^® can do.

Mixing and Administering LUPRON DEPOT

Learn how to mix and administer LUPRON DEPOT.

Instructions

SUPPORTING YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH LUPRON DEPOT

Dedicated to supporting your patients through innovative resources and programs.

OPPS=Outpatient Prospective Payment System.

Patient Support and Education

Video Library

Dedicated to supporting your patients through  
innovative resources and programs.