Melanoma Drug Information

Drug Information

Alkeran

Melphalan

Indication: Tab: Multiple myeloma, advanced ovarian adenocarcinoma, breast carcinoma, polycythaemia rubra vera. Inj: Local...

MIMS Class: Cytotoxic Chemotherapy

Aspen [ Zuellig Pharma ]

Cisplatin Pfizer

Cisplatin

Indication: Monotherapy or in combination w/ other chemotherapeutic agents for metastatic non-seminomatous germ cell carci...

MIMS Class: Cytotoxic Chemotherapy

Pfizer / DKSH [ Zuellig Pharma ]

DBL Cisplatin

Cisplatin

Indication: Monotherapy or combination therapy for palliative treatment of metastatic non-seminomatous germ cell carcinoma...

MIMS Class: Cytotoxic Chemotherapy

Pfizer / DKSH [ Zuellig Pharma ]

DBL Dacarbazine

Dacarbazine

Indication: Metastatic malignant melanoma & various sarcomas.

MIMS Class: Cytotoxic Chemotherapy

Pfizer / DKSH [ Zuellig Pharma ]

DBL Vincristine Sulfate

Vincristine sulfate

Indication: Acute leukemia. In combination w/ other oncolytic agents in Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphom...

MIMS Class: Cytotoxic Chemotherapy

Pfizer / DKSH [ Zuellig Pharma ]

Epicn

Epirubicin

Indication: Breast, gastric, ovarian & small cell lung cancer; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; advanced/metastatic soft tissue...

MIMS Class: Cytotoxic Chemotherapy

Intas [ Accord Healthcare ]

Pharmorubicin CS

Epirubicin

Indication: Breast, gastric, ovarian, small cell lung & superficial bladder (Tis, Ta) cancer, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, ...

MIMS Class: Cytotoxic Chemotherapy

Pfizer / DKSH [ Zuellig Pharma ]

Rebif

Interferon beta-1a

Indication: Patients w/ a single demyelinating event w/ inflammatory process or multiple sclerosis of the relapsing/remitt...

MIMS Class: Vaccines, Antisera & Immunologicals

Merck [ Zuellig Pharma ]

Zelboraf

Vemurafenib

Indication: Adult patients w/ BRAF V600 mutation +ve unresectable or metastatic melanoma.

MIMS Class: Targeted Cancer Therapy

Roche [ Zuellig Pharma ]

Betaferon

MIMS Class: Vaccines, Antisera & Immunologicals

Weight loss by either surgery or diet key to better metabolic health in diabetes

Jairia Dela Cruz, Yesterday

For individual with type 2 diabetes, losing weight is everything when it comes to improving the metabolic function, and it matters little whether this is achieved by dieting or undergoing bariatric surgery, according to a small study.

PCI tied to death, MI, stroke in patients with LMCA, LV dysfunction

3 days ago

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), compared with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), in the revascularization of left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease may lead to death, myocardial infarction (MI), or stroke in patients with moderate or severe left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, reveals a study.