Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Cyproterone acetate is a progestogen that has an androgen receptor antagonist activity.There is contradictory data regarding its effects on the growth of meningiomas; it has been suggested that progestins promote growth as progesterone receptors predominate in meningioma tissue, but in vitro, it inhibited the growth of meningioma cells. We present a case where a brain meningioma may have grown following anti-androgen therapy for hype...