Oncology
Summary of Product Characteristics
Oncology
Oncology
Imatinib/Krka 400 mg
Solution for Injection
It is indicated as an alkylating agent to treat several types of brain cancer including glioma, glioblastoma multiforme, medulloblastoma and astrocytoma), multiple myeloma and lymphoma (Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin).
Carmustine/Tillomed must be prescribed exclusively by health experts, experienced in the chemotherapy area and under the appropriate medical surveillance.
Summary of Product Characteristics
Powder & Solvent for Infusion
It is indicated in the treatment of multiple myeloma and advanced ovarian adenocarcinoma. Melphalan, either alone or in combination with other drugs, has a significant therapeutic effect in a proportion of patients suffering from advanced breast carcinoma. Melphalan is effective in the treatment of a proportion of patients suffering from polycythaemia vera.
Melphalan/Tillomed must be prescribed only by a medical specialist, experienced in this specific malignant disease’s treatment.
Summary of Product Characteristics
Film-coated tablets
Imatinib Krka d.d. is indicated for the
treatment of
• adult and paediatric patients with newly
diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome
(bcr-abl) positive (Ph+) chronic myeloid
leukaemia (CML) for whom bone marrow
transplantation is not considered as the
first line of treatment.
• adult and paediatric patients with Ph+
CML in chronic phase after failure of
interferon-alpha therapy, or in accelerated
phase or blast crisis.
• adult and paediatric patients with newly
diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome
positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
(Ph+ ALL) integrated with chemotherapy.
• adult patients with relapsed or refractory
Ph+ ALL as monotherapy.
• adult patients with myelodysplastic/
myeloproliferative diseases (MDS/
MPD) associated with platelet-derived
growth factor receptor (PDGFR) gene rearrangements.
• adult patients with advanced
hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) and/or
chronic eosinophilic leukaemia (CEL) with
FIP1L1-PDGFRα rearrangement.
• the treatment of adult patients with
Kit (CD 117) positive unresectable and/
or metastatic malignant gastrointestinal
stromal tumours (GIST).
• the adjuvant treatment of adult patients
who are at significant risk of relapse
following resection of Kit (CD117)-positive
GIST.
Patients who have a low or very
low risk of recurrence should not receive
adjuvant treatment.
• the treatment of adult patients with
unresectable dermatofibrosarcoma
protuberans (DFSP) and adult patients
with recurrent and/or metastatic DFSP
who are not eligible for surgery.
Imatinib/Krka must be prescribed exclusively by a medical specialist.
Summary of Product Characteristics