AFINITOR

AFINITOR

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AFINITOR

AFINITOR is a prescription medicine used to treat:

  • Advanced hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, along with the medicine exemestane, in postmenopausal women who have already received certain other medicines for their cancer

  • Adults with a type of pancreatic cancer known as pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (PNET) that has progressed and cannot be treated with surgery. It is not known if AFINITOR is safe and effective in people with carcinoid tumors

  • Adults with advanced kidney cancer (renal cell carcinoma or RCC) when certain other medicines have not worked

  • Adults with a kidney tumor called angiomyolipoma, seen with a genetic condition called tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), when their kidney tumor does not require surgery right away

    • The effectiveness of AFINITOR in treating angiomyolipoma of the kidney is based on a study of patients treated over an average of 8.3 months. More information is needed to understand the long-term effects of treatment with AFINITOR

  • Adults and children with a genetic condition called tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) who have a brain tumor called subependymal giant cell astrocytoma (SEGA) when the tumor cannot be removed completely by surgery

    • The effectiveness of AFINITOR is based on change in SEGA size. Improvement in disease-related symptoms or overall survival has not been shown

AFINITOR DISPERZ is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children with a genetic condition called tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) who have a brain tumor called subependymal giant cell astrocytoma (SEGA) when the tumor cannot be removed completely by surgery.



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