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Somatuline® Depot (Lanreotide) Injection
Somatuline® Depot (lanreotide) Injection is a medication for the treatment of acromegaly that may lower the levels of excess growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor in your body. Both of these effects may help your body control acromegaly.
Somatuline Depot is a “somatostatin analog.” Somatostatin is a natural substance that helps control the amount of growth hormones and factors your body produces. While Somatuline Depot is part of the somatostatin analog group of medications and works the same way, it is different from other analogs, and the differences are simple.
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The FDA approved Somatuline Depot based on randomized controlled clinical trials. In addition, this product has extensive commercial experience worldwide, and in 2006, more than 6000 patients were treated.
Somatuline® Depot (Lanreotide) Injection is easy for you to take
Somatuline Depot is the only long-acting somatostatin analog with:
- Under-the-skin injections. Another long-acting somatostatin analog is delivered by injection into muscle, which can be painful. Somatuline Depot is the only long-acting somatostatin analog that can be injected under the skin instead of into the muscle.
- No-mixing-needed. Somatuline Depot does not need to be mixed before injecting, unlike other long-acting medications for acromegaly. It comes in a single, ready-to-use, prefilled syringe.
- Simple injection. Injecting Somatuline Depot is an easy procedure. The syringe has a shorter needle than the one used to inject the other long-acting somatostatin analog.
- Easy-to-take. An injection of Somatuline Depot is just half a milliliter (1/10 of a teaspoon). That’s 80% less than other long-acting somatostatin analogs. The smaller the injection, the less chance it might hurt.
