Medroxyprogesterone 17-acetate CAS NO.71-58-9

In females, the most common use of MPA is as an oral or depot-injectedcontraceptive and also as the progestin component of menopausal hormone replacement therapy to prevent endometrial hyperplasia and cancer. MPA is also used as a treatment for endometriosis, dysmenorrhea, andamenorrhea.^[8] MPA, along with other progestins were developed to allow the hormones to be taken orally, as progesterone (the hormone made by the human body) could not be taken orally before the process ofmicronization was developed.^[9]