Hair Loss

IHTI Newsletter, Summer 2008 - The Cole Hair Transplant Group
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Why would anyone use oral dutasteride instead of topical? (Propecia, Spiro, DHT & hormones ...)

posted by cal, 10.05.2008, 04:22

I'll tell you why Glaxo doesn't have a pill form of it: They've never sold Dutasteride for hair loss in the first place. It's still basically a prostate drug.



As for topical --

In my experience the drug companies don't wanna mess with selling topicals that have much of ANY systemic absorption. They wanna either have nothing get to the system or else they sell it as a pill.

A small market like us might feel that a topical with slightly smaller systemic effects is worth selling. But their bean-counters probably don't see the dollars adding up to justify the development costs.

Complete thread:

• Why would anyone use oral dutasteride instead of topical? - Goingallout, 28.04.2008, 16:07 (Propecia, Spiro, DHT & hormones ...)
  • Why would anyone use oral dutasteride instead of topical? - brm, 28.04.2008, 18:17
    • Why would anyone use oral dutasteride instead of topical? - cal, 10.05.2008, 04:22
      • Why would anyone use oral dutasteride instead of topical? - fckhrls, 10.05.2008, 19:33
  • Why would anyone use oral dutasteride instead of topical? - fckhrls, 10.05.2008, 19:32
  • How do you make the mixture? - Arch Koven, 15.05.2008, 13:21