DOCETAXEL

Docetaxel

Composition: each vial with a capacity of 1 ml, 2 ml, 4 ml contains:

active ingredients: docetaxel – 20 mg, 40 mg or 80 mg.

Therapeutic indications

  1.    Breast cancer (BC)

Operable BC (adjuvant chemotherapy combined with doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide):

    -  involving regional lymph glands;

    -  without involving regional lymph glands in patients indicated for chemotherapy according to the established international selection criteria for initial chemotherapy at early stages of BC (in case oа one or more factors of high risk of recurrence: tumor size more than 2 cm, negative status of estrogen and progesterone receptors, high histological level of tumor malignancy (level 2-3), age under 35 years old).

Metastatic and/or locally advanced BC:

    -  locally advanced or metastatic BC (first line therapy combined with doxorubicin);

    -  metastatic BC with tumor hyperexpression HER2 (first line therapy combined with trastuzumab);

    -  locally advanced or metastatic BC in non-effective previous chemotherapy including anthracyclines or alkalising preparations (in monotherapy) or in non-effective previous chemotherapy including anthracyclines (combined with capecitabine).

  2.    Non-small cell lung cancer non-operable, locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (combined with cisplatin or carboplatin) as first line therapy or in monotherapy as second line therapy.

  3.    Metastatic ovarian cancer (second line therapy).

  4.    Head and neck cancer.

Locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck (induction therapy combined with cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil).

  5.    Prostate cancer.

Metastatic prostate cancer, refractory to hormonal therapy (combined with prednisone or prednisolone).

  6.    Stomach cancer

Metastatic stomach cancer including cancer of esophagogastric transition zone (first line therapy combined with cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil).

	АТС code
	L01CD02
	Pharmaceutical form
	concentrate for preparing solution for infusion 20 mg/ml
	Storage conditions
	Store in protected from light place at the temperature between 2ºС and 8ºС.