Spectrum Pharmaceuticals has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the use of FUSILEV (levoleucovorin) in combination with 5-fluorouracil in the palliative treatment of patients with advanced metastatic colorectal cancer, according to a company news release.
This new, expanded indication supplements the original 2008 FDA approval of FUSILEV. The drug is also indicated for rescue after high-dose methotrexate therapy in osteosarcoma and for diminishing the toxicity and counteracting the effects of impaired methotrexate elimination and of inadvertent overdosage of folic acid antagonists.
Read the news release about the FDA approval of FUSILEV.
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This new, expanded indication supplements the original 2008 FDA approval of FUSILEV. The drug is also indicated for rescue after high-dose methotrexate therapy in osteosarcoma and for diminishing the toxicity and counteracting the effects of impaired methotrexate elimination and of inadvertent overdosage of folic acid antagonists.
Read the news release about the FDA approval of FUSILEV.
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