Australia - English - Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)

pfizer australia pty ltd - cytarabine, quantity: 500 mg - injection, solution - excipient ingredients: sodium hydroxide; hydrochloric acid; water for injections; sodium chloride - indications as at 24 october 2001: cytarabine is indicated primarily for: induction and maintenance of remission in acute myelocytic leukaemia of both adults and children. it has also been found to be useful in the treatment of other leukaemias such as acute lymphocytic leukaemia, chronic myelocytic leukaemia (blast phase). cytarabine may be used alone or in combination with other antineoplastic agents, the best results are often obtained with combined therapy. children with non-hodgkin's lymphoma have benefited from a combination drug program (lsa212) that includes cytarabine. remissions induced by cytarabine not followed by maintenance treatment have been brief. maintenance therapy has extended these and provided useful and comfortable remissions with relatively little toxicity. cytarabine has been used intrathecally in meningeal leukaemia. focal leukaemic involvement of the central nervous system may not respond to intrathecal cytarabine and may better be treated with radiotherapy.

Australia - English - Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)

pfizer australia pty ltd - vincristine sulfate, quantity: 1 mg/ml - injection, solution - excipient ingredients: mannitol; water for injections; sodium hydroxide; sulfuric acid - vincristine is used primarily in the treatment of acute leukaemia, usually as a component of various chemotherapeutic regimens. it has also been used as part of combination therapy in the treatment of hodgkin's disease, non-hodgkin's malignant lymphomas, rhabdomyosarcoma, neuroblastoma, wilm's tumour, osteogenic sarcoma, mycosis fungoides, ewing's sarcoma, carcinoma of the uterine cervix, breast cancer, malignant melanoma, oat-cell carcinoma of the lung and gynaecological tumours of childhood. vincristine may be useful in patients with true idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura resistant to the usual treatment, but not recommended as primary treatment for this disorder

Australia - English - Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)

pfizer australia pty ltd - etoposide, quantity: 20 mg/ml - injection, concentrated - excipient ingredients: polysorbate 80; ethanol absolute; macrogol 300; citric acid - indications as at 3 april 1996: etoposide injection is indicated for the following: small cell carcinoma of the lung. acute monocytic and myelomonocytic leukaemia. hodgkin's disease. non-hodgkin's lymphoma

Australia - English - Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)

pfizer australia pty ltd - cytarabine, quantity: 1 g - injection, solution - excipient ingredients: sodium hydroxide; hydrochloric acid; water for injections - primarily for induction and maintenance of remission in acute myelocytic leukaemia of both adults and children. it has also been found to be useful in the treatment of other leukaemias such as acute lymphocytic leukaemia, chronic myelocytic leukaemia (blastphase) and erythroleukaemia. may be used alone or in combination with other antineoplastic agents, the best results often being obtained with combination therapy. children with non-hodgkin's lymphoma have benefited from a combination drug program (lsa 2l2) that includes cytarabine. indications as at 24 october 2001: cytarabine is indicated primarily for: induction and maintenance of remission in acute myelocytic leukaemia of both adults and children. it has also been found to be useful in the treatment of other leukaemias such as acute lymphocytic leukaemia, chronic myelocytic leukaemia (blast phase). cytarabine may be used alone or in combination with other antineoplastic agents, the best results are often obtained with combined therapy. children with

Australia - English - Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)

pfizer australia pty ltd - cytarabine, quantity: 100 mg - injection, solution - excipient ingredients: sodium hydroxide; sodium chloride; water for injections; hydrochloric acid - primarily for induction and maintenance of remission in acute myelocytic leukaemia of both adults and children. it has also been found to be useful in the treatment of other leukaemias such as acute lymphocytic leukaemia, chronic myelocytic leukaemia (blastphase) and erythroleukaemia. may be used alone or in combination with other antineoplastic agents, the best results often being obtained with combination therapy. children with non-hodgkin's lymphoma have benefited from a combination drug program (lsa 2l2) that includes cytarabine. indications as at 24 october 2001: cytarabine is indicated primarily for: induction and maintenance of remission in acute myelocytic leukaemia of both adults and children. it has also been found to be useful in the treatment of other leukaemias such as acute lymphocytic leukaemia, chronic myelocytic leukaemia (blast phase). cytarabine may be used alone or in combination with other antineoplastic agents, the best results are often obtained with combined therapy. children with

Australia - English - Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)

pfizer australia pty ltd - cisplatin, quantity: 10 mg - injection, solution - excipient ingredients: sodium chloride; mannitol; hydrochloric acid; water for injections; sodium hydroxide - cisplatin injection may be used singularly or in combination with other chemotherapeutic agents in the treatment of: - metastatic nonseminomatous germ cell carcinoma; advanced stage, refractory ovarian carcinoma; advanced stage, refractory bladder carcinoma; refractory squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck

Singapore - English - HSA (Health Sciences Authority)

pfizer private limited - daptomycin - injection, powder, lyophilized, for solution - daptomycin 500mg/vial

Australia - English - Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)

pfizer australia pty ltd - vancomycin, quantity: 1000 mg - injection, powder for - excipient ingredients: hydrochloric acid; sodium hydroxide - potentially life-threatening infections which cannot be treated with another effective, less toxic antimicrobial drug, including the penicillins and cephalosporins. severe staphylococcal (including methicillin resistant staphylococcal) infections in patients who cannot receive or who have failed to respond to the penicillins and cephalosporins or who have infections with staphylococci that are resistant to other antibiotics. once sensitivity data are available, therapy should be adjusted accordingly. alone or in combination with an aminoglycoside for endocarditis caused by strep. viridans or strep. bovis. for endocarditis caused by enterococci (eg strep. faecalis), effective only in combination with an aminoglycoside. diphtheroid endocarditis. in combination with rifampicin, an aminoglycoside, or both in early onset prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by staph. epidermidis or diphtheroids. other infections due to staphylococci including osteomyelitis, pneumonia, septicaemia, and soft itssue infections. when staphylococcal infections are localised and purulent, antibiotics are used as adjuncts to appropriate surgical measures. specimens for bacteriological cultures should be obtained in order to isolate and identify causative organisms and to determine their susceptibilities to vancomycin injections. should be administered orally for the treatment of staphylococcal enterocolitis and antibiotic associated pseudomembranous colitis (produced by c difficile). parenteral administration alone is inappropriate for this indication. vancomycin is not effective by the oral route for other types of infections. for oral adminsitration, the parenteral formulation may be used. some systemic absorption may occur following oral administration in patients with pseudo-membranous colitis.

Tanzania - English - Tanzania Medicinces & Medical Devices Authority

pfizer laboratories limited, kenya - crizotinib - capsules, hard - 200

Tanzania - English - Tanzania Medicinces & Medical Devices Authority

pfizer laboratories limited, kenya - crizotinib - capsules, hard - 250