Bicalutamide-oral

Name: BICALUTAMIDE-ORAL

Missed dose

For the best benefits, it is important to take this medication as directed. If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you remember. If it is near the time of the next dose, skip the missed dose and resume your usual dosing schedule. Do not double the dose to catch up.

Uses

Bicalutamide is used with another drug (LHRH-type such as leuprolide, goserelin) to treat prostate cancer. This medication works by blocking the action of male hormones in the prostate, slowing the growth of cancer cells.

This medication should not be used in women and children.

How to use Bicalutamide

Read the Patient Information Leaflet if available from your pharmacist before you start taking bicalutamide and each time you get a refill. If you have any questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

Take this medication by mouth with or without food as directed by your doctor, usually once a day.

Use this medication regularly to get the most benefit from it. To help you remember, take it at the same time each day.

Do not increase your dose or use this drug more often or for longer than prescribed. Your condition will not improve any faster, and your risk of serious side effects will increase.

Since this drug can be absorbed through the skin and lungs and may harm an unborn baby, women who are pregnant or who may become pregnant should not handle this medication or breathe the dust from the tablets.

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