can male took depo provera?

Question

is there by any chance depo provera is being used in australia as a treatment for kidney cancer?

Answer 1

Depo Provera is a laboratory-produced hormone that is used for long-term contraception for women. I was unaware of kidney cancer being responsive to hormone therapy.

By nature of the disease, kidney cancer (renal cell carcinoma, specifically) does not respond to traditional chemotherapy and radiation therapy. The most effective treatment has been biological or immuno-therapy such as interferon and various interleukins. There is another treatment that was recently approved in the US, but I cannot remember the name of it, although I just emailed someone else the information a couple weeks ago. I'll see if I can find it and edit my answer.

In the meantime, if you have a reference to depo being used for kidney cancer anywhere, I am interested in that information. Please email it to me.

You can also get more information about kidney cancer from the kidney cancer association in Evanston, Illinois in the US. www.kidneycancer.org or a list of links is at www.kidneycancerassociation.org.

{Edit: In December 2005, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a new type of drug called Nexavar for adults with advanced renal cell carcinoma. The drug works by blocking a tumor's blood supply.}

Answer 2

yes a male can depo provera i give to men in the nurisng home i work i do not know about the kidney cancer treatment though i am a psych nurse good luck

Answer 3

Not that I'm aware of in the cancer research community. Kidneys generally do not have testosterone sensitive tumours. Estrogen is given to men with advanced prostate cancer. But I have never heard of a birth control method being used for cancer treatment.

Answer 4

In medicine every treatment option is weight based on risk versus benefit. Given that Depo will chemically castrate a male, among other nasty effects, I highly doubt it would ever be used as any type of treatment in a man.

Answer 5

I doubt it very much; it is used for repeat sex offenders.
If it can be used as a cancer treatment, some one, some where would be aware of it and publish it. I think someone is pulling your leg.

Answer 6

It's given to male sex offenders for chemical castration. I've never heard of it as a cancer treatment.

Answer 7

Norplant is a long-acting hormone that is inserted under the skin and prevents conception for up to five years. Depo-Provera is also a hormone, but is administered by intramuscular injection and provides protection against pregnancy for three months. Lunelle is another injectable contraceptive that is administered monthly (every 28 to 30 days); it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in October 2000. The hormone in Norplant and Depo-Provera is progestin, a synthetic hormone similar to one found naturally in a woman's body; Lunelle contains the hormones progestin and estrogen.

The purpose of these hormones is to prevent pregnancy; they are about 99% effective in achieving this goal. No hormonal contraceptive methods provide protection from AIDS or other sexually transmitted diseases.

Depo-Provera and Lunelle are given as an injection and work in several ways to prevent conception. First, the egg (ovum) is prevented from maturing and being released. The mucus in the cervix (opening into the uterus or womb) becomes thicker, making it difficult for the sperm to enter. Depo-Provera and Lunelle also cause the lining of the uterus to become thinner, making implantation of a fertilized egg unlikely.

An injection of Depo-Provera or Lunelle must be given within the first five days of a normal period. Depo-Provera provides protection against pregnancy for three months, while Lunelle provides similar protection for one month. Ovulation (release of a mature egg) typically occurs within 60 days of the last injection of Lunelle, about twice as fast after use of Depo-Provera. Also, because Lunelle is a combined hormone contraceptive as opposed to progestin-only Depo-Provera and Norplant, it is less likely to cause irregular or absent menstruation.

Norplant capsules contain a synthetic hormone that is slowly released over a period of up to five years. It functions like Depo-Provera in that it prevents the ovaries from producing ova (eggs) and also results in thicker mucus in the cervix, which prevents the sperm from passing through the cervix. Norplant can be inserted at any time.

In my opinion, there is by chance that the drug is being used as treatment in any part of the world for ruling out purposes because of its effect to cancer cells but it doesnt mean that it could cure the cancerous kidney, the only remedy to the cancerous cells are the treatment used in hospitals like radiation therapy and medication treatment.

Each person's treatment is different and depends on several factors. The location, size, and extent of the tumor have to be considered in addition to the patient's age, general health, and medical history.

The primary treatment for kidney cancer that has not spread to other parts of the body, which is a Stage I, II, or III tumor, is surgical removal of the diseased kidney (nephrectomy). Because most cancers affect only one kidney, the patient can function well on the one remaining. Two types of surgical procedure are used. Radical nephrectomy removes the entire kidney and the surrounding tissue. Sometimes, the lymph nodes surrounding the kidney are also removed. Partial nephrectomy removes only part of the kidney along with the tumor. This procedure is used either when the tumor is very small or when it is not practical to remove the entire kidney. It is not practical to remove a kidney when the patient has only one kidney or when both kidneys have tumors. There is a small (5%) chance of missing some of the cancer. Nephrectomy can also be useful for Stage IV cancers, but alternative surgical procedures such as transarterial angioinfarction may be used.

Radiation therapy, which consists of exposing the cancer cells to high-energy gamma rays from an external source, generally destroys cancer cells with minimal damage to the normal tissue. Side effects are nausea, fatigue, and stomach upsets. These symptoms disappear when the treatment is over. In kidney cancer, radiation therapy has been shown to alleviate pain and bleeding, especially when the cancer is inoperable. However, it has not proven to be of much use in destroying the kidney cancer cells. Therefore radiation therapy is not used very often as a treatment for cancer or as a routine adjuvant to nephrectomy. Radiotherapy, however, is used to manage metastatic kidney cancer.

Treatment of kidney cancer with anti-cancer drugs (chemotherapy) has not produced good results. However, new drugs and new combinations of drugs continue to be tested in clinical trials.

Immunotherapy or immunologic therapy, a form of treatment in which the body's immune system is harnessed to help fight the cancer, is a new mode of therapy that is being tested for kidney cancer. Clinical trials with substances produced by the immune cells (aldesleukin and interferon) have shown some promise in destroying kidney cancer cells. These substances have been approved for use but they can be very toxic and produce severe side effects. The benefits derived from the treatment have to be weighed very carefully against the side effects in each case. Immunotherapy is the most promising systemic therapy for metastatic kidney cancer.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

depo is a for of protection(sex wise).But i dont think so,but i could be wrong