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MYLOTARG® (gemtuzumab ozogamicin for Injection)
Product Overview
MYLOTARG® (gemtuzumab ozogamicin for Injection)
Indication and Usage
- MYLOTARG is indicated for the treatment of patients with CD33+ acute myeloid leukemia in first relapse who are 60 years of age or older and who are not considered candidates for other cytotoxic chemotherapy. The safety and efficacy of MYLOTARG in patients with poor performance status and organ dysfunction has not been established.
- The effectiveness of MYLOTARG is based on overall response rates. There are no controlled trials demonstrating a clinical benefit, such as improvement in disease-related symptoms or increased survival, compared to any other treatment.
Important Safety Information
WARNINGS: MYLOTARG should be administered under the supervision of physicians experienced in the treatment of acute leukemia and in facilities equipped to monitor and treat leukemia patients. There are no controlled trials demonstrating efficacy and safety using MYLOTARG in combination with other chemotherapeutic agents. Therefore, MYLOTARG should only be used as single agent chemotherapy and not in combination chemotherapy regimens outside clinical trials. Severe myelosuppression occurs when MYLOTARG is used at recommended doses.
HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTIONS INCLUDING ANAPHYLAXIS, INFUSION REACTIONS, PULMONARY EVENTS: MYLOTARG administration can result in severe hypersensitivity reactions (including anaphylaxis), and other infusion-related reactions which may include severe pulmonary events. Infrequently, hypersensitivity reactions and pulmonary events have been fatal. In most cases, infusion-related symptoms occurred during the infusion or within 24 hours of administration of MYLOTARG and resolved. MYLOTARG infusion should be interrupted for patients experiencing dyspnea or clinically significant hypotension. Patients should be monitored until signs and symptoms completely resolve. Discontinuation of MYLOTARG treatment should be strongly considered for patients who develop anaphylaxis, pulmonary edema, or acute respiratory distress syndrome. Since patients with high peripheral blast counts may be at greater risk for pulmonary events and tumor lysis syndrome, physicians should consider leukoreduction with hydroxyurea or leukapheresis to reduce the peripheral white count to below 30,000/µL prior to administration of MYLOTARG. (See WARNINGS.)
HEPATOTOXICITY: Hepatotoxicity, including severe hepatic veno-occlusive disease (VOD), has been reported in association with the use of MYLOTARG as a single agent, as part of a combination chemotherapy regimen, and in patients without a history of liver disease or hematopoietic stem-cell transplant (HSCT). Patients who receive MYLOTARG either before or after HSCT, patients with underlying hepatic disease or abnormal liver function, and patients receiving MYLOTARG in combinations with other chemotherapy are at increased risk for developing VOD, including severe VOD. Death from liver failure and from VOD has been reported in patients who received MYLOTARG. Physicians should monitor their patients carefully for symptoms of hepatotoxicity, particularly VOD. These symptoms can include: rapid weight gain, right upper quadrant pain, hepatomegaly, ascites, elevations in bilirubin and/or liver enzymes. However, careful monitoring may not identify all patients at risk or prevent the complications of hepatotoxicity. (See WARNINGS and ADVERSE REACTIONS sections.)
- MYLOTARG is contraindicated in patients with a known hypersensitivity to gemtuzumab ozogamicin or any of its components. MYLOTARG may cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. MYLOTARG could be excreted in human breast milk and could therefore cause serious adverse reactions in nursing infants. The reported rate of Grade 3 or 4 thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, anemia, and bleeding were 99%, 98%, 52%, and 13%, respectively. Thirty percent of patients experienced severe infections, including opportunistic infections. The most frequent severe infections included sepsis (17%) and pneumonia (8%).
- The most common adverse events (≥20%) were fever (82%), nausea (68%), chills (66%), vomiting (58%), thrombocytopenia (50%), leukopenia (47%), headache (37%), asthenia (36%), abdominal pain (32%), diarrhea (32%), epistaxis (28%), dyspnea (26%), hypokalemia (26%), sepsis (26%), anorexia (25%), stomatitis (25%), liver function tests abnormal (24%), constipation (23%), anemia (22%), local reaction (22%), herpes simplex (21%), and hypotension (20%).
- MYLOTARG can produce a postinfusion symptom complex of fever and chills, and less commonly hypotension and dyspnea during the first 24 hours after administration. Patients should receive diphenhydramine 50 mg po and acetaminophen 650-1000 mg po 1 hour before MYLOTARG administration. Two additional doses of acetaminophen 650-1000 mg po every 4 hours may be given. Fever and chills were commonly reported despite premedication with diphenhydramine and acetaminophen. Vital signs should be monitored during infusion and for 4 hours following infusion. Methylprednisolone given prior to MYLOTARG infusion may ameliorate infusion-related symptoms.
- Severe pulmonary events leading to death have been reported infrequently with the use of MYLOTARG in the postmarketing setting. Signs, symptoms and clinical findings include dyspnea, pulmonary infiltrates, pleural effusions, non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema, pulmonary insufficiency and hypoxia, and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Patients with symptomatic intrinsic lung disease may also be at greater risk of severe pulmonary reactions.
- Severe myelosuppression will occur in all patients given the recommended dose of this agent. Careful hematologic monitoring is required. Systemic infections should be treated.
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