Vectibix is used in the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (bowel cancer) in adult patients with a type of tumors known as wild-type RAS tumors . Vectibix is used alone or in combination with other anticancer treatments.
Vectibix contains the active substance panitumumab, which belongs to a group of medicines called monoclonal antibodies. Monoclonal antibodies are proteins that specifically recognize and bind to other proteins in the body.
How to use:
As a first-time treatment given with chemotherapy called FOLFOX (folinic acid, fluorouracil, oxaliplatin)
Alone, following disease progression with the following chemotherapies: fluoropyrimidine-, oxaliplatin-, and irinotecan-containing chemotherapy
Caution & Warnings:
Side Effects:
Skin reactions
Patients who have metastatic colorectal cancer with RAS-mutant tumors should not receive Vectibix®.
Vectibix is used in the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (bowel cancer) in adult patients with a type of tumors known as wild-type RAS tumors . Vectibix is used alone or in combination with other anticancer treatments.
Vectibix contains the active substance panitumumab, which belongs to a group of medicines called monoclonal antibodies. Monoclonal antibodies are proteins that specifically recognize and bind to other proteins in the body.
How to use:
As a first-time treatment given with chemotherapy called FOLFOX (folinic acid, fluorouracil, oxaliplatin)
Alone, following disease progression with the following chemotherapies: fluoropyrimidine-, oxaliplatin-, and irinotecan-containing chemotherapy
Caution & Warnings:
Side Effects:
Skin reactions
Patients who have metastatic colorectal cancer with RAS-mutant tumors should not receive Vectibix®.