The European Medicines Agency's pharmacovigilance committee, the PRAC, has launched a review to examine whether changes should be made to the labeling of cyproterone-containing medicines to warn patients about the risk of meningioma at high doses.
Cyproterone is a progesterone derivative with anti-androgenic properties and is used to treat a wide range of conditions – including excessive hair growth, prostate cancer and acne – and in...