Caelyx pegylated liposomal 2mg/ml concentrate for solution for infusion
Caelyx pegylated liposomal is indicated: - As monotherapy for patients with metastatic breast cancer, where there is an increased cardiac risk. - For treatment of advanced ovarian cancer in women who have failed a first-line platinum-based chemotherapy regimen. - In combination with bortezomib for the treatment of progressive multiple myeloma in patients who have received at least one prior therapy and who have already undergone or are unsuitable for bone marrow transplant. - For treatment of AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) in patients with low CD4 counts (< 200 CD4 lymphocytes/mm 3 ) and extensive mucocutaneous or visceral disease. Caelyx pegylated liposomal may be used as first-line systemic chemotherapy, or as second line chemotherapy in AIDS-KS patients with disease that has progressed with, or in patients intolerant to, prior combination systemic chemotherapy comprising at least two of the following agents: a vinca alkaloid, bleomycin and standard doxorubicin (or other anthracycline).