What is HALAVEN used for?

What is HALAVEN used for?

HALAVEN is a prescription medicine used to treat adults with breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, and who have already received other types of anticancer medicines after the cancer has spread.

Is HALAVEN chemotherapy?

Halaven (chemical name: eribulin) is a chemotherapy medicine approved to treat metastatic breast cancer that has already been treated with other chemotherapy medicines. Xeloda (chemical name: capecitabine) is a chemotherapy medicine often used in combination with other anticancer medicines.

Is HALAVEN generic?

Has a generic version of Halaven been approved? No. There is currently no therapeutically equivalent version of Halaven available in the United States.

How long can you take HALAVEN?

HALAVEN is given by an injection into your vein (known as an intravenous, or IV, infusion). Each HALAVEN dose is given over a short period of 2 to 5 minutes. One cycle of treatment lasts 21 days, and consists of 1 IV infusion once a week for 2 weeks, and then 1 week without HALAVEN.

How effective is HALAVEN?

Patients with advanced liposarcoma who were treated with HALAVEN lived an average of 15.6 months compared with patients treated with the other chemotherapy, who lived an average of 8.4 months. This means that patients who received HALAVEN lived 86% longer than patients who received the other chemotherapy.

Does HALAVEN cause hair loss?

The most common side effects of HALAVEN in adults with breast cancer include low white blood cell count (neutropenia), low red blood cell count (anemia), weakness or tiredness, hair loss (alopecia), nausea, and constipation.

Do you lose your hair on HALAVEN?

How is HALAVEN administered?

HALAVEN is for intravenous use. The dose may be diluted in up to 100 ml of sodium chloride 9 mg/ml (0.9%) solution for injection. It should not be diluted in glucose 5% infusion solution. For instructions on the dilution of the medicinal product before administration, see section 6.6.

What are the side effects of HALAVEN?

SIDE EFFECTS: Nausea, constipation, watering eyes, loss of appetite, dry mouth, changes in taste, trouble sleeping, muscle/joint pain, dizziness, tiredness, or weakness may occur. If any of these effects persist or worsen, tell your doctor promptly. Temporary hair loss may occur.

How long can you take eribulin?

This 2-day treatment is given again every 21 days until your body responds to the medicine or you and your doctor decide to stop the treatment. Each treatment usually takes about 2 to 5 minutes.