Ástralía - enska - Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)

pfizer australia pty ltd - carboplatin, quantity: 10 mg/ml - injection, solution - excipient ingredients: water for injections - for the treatment of advanced ovarian carcinoma of epithelial origin.

Ástralía - enska - Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)

pfizer australia pty ltd - carboplatin, quantity: 10 mg/ml - injection, solution - excipient ingredients: water for injections - for the treatment of advanced ovarian carcinoma of epithelial origin.

Ástralía - enska - Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)

pfizer australia pty ltd - cisplatin, quantity: 100 mg - injection, solution - excipient ingredients: water for injections; hydrochloric acid; sodium chloride; mannitol; 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

Ástralía - enska - Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)

pfizer australia pty ltd - cisplatin, quantity: 50 mg - injection, solution - excipient ingredients: water for injections; hydrochloric acid; sodium chloride; sodium hydroxide; mannitol - 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

Ástralía - enska - Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)

pfizer australia pty ltd - cytarabine, quantity: 2 g - injection, solution - excipient ingredients: sodium hydroxide; 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 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.

Ástralía - enska - 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

Ástralía - enska - Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)

pfizer australia pty ltd - methotrexate, quantity: 500 mg - injection, solution - excipient ingredients: water for injections; sodium chloride; hydrochloric acid; sodium hydroxide - antineoplastic chemotherapy - treatment of breast cancer, gestational choriocarcinoma and in patients with chorioadenoma destruens and hydatidiform mole. palliation of acute and subacute lymphocytic and meningeal leukaemia. greatest effect has been observed in palliation of acute lymphoblastic (stem cell) leukaemia. in combination with corticosteroids, methotrexate may be used for induction of remission. the drug is now most commonly used for the maintenance of induced remissions. methotrexate is also effective in the treatment of the advanced stages (iii and iv, peters staging system) of lymphosarcoma, particularly in children and in advanced cases of mycosis fungoides. high dose therapy - the use of very high doses is made possible by vials for injection containing 500 mg and 1000 mg (see precautions). diseases treated with these doses administered in the form of single-drug or combination therapy, include osteogenic sarcoma, acute leukaemia, bronchogenic carcinoma and epidermoid carcinoma of the head and n

Ástralía - enska - Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)

pfizer australia pty ltd - carboplatin, quantity: 10 mg/ml - injection, solution - excipient ingredients: water for injections - for the treatment of advanced ovarian carcinoma of epithelial origin.

Ástralía - enska - Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)

pfizer australia pty ltd - bupivacaine hydrochloride monohydrate, quantity: 105.4 mg - injection, solution - excipient ingredients: sodium chloride; water for injections; sodium hydroxide; hydrochloric acid - bupivacaine injection is indicated for the production of local or regional anaesthesia and analgesia in individuals as follows: surgical anaesthesia - epidural block for surgery - field block (minor and major nerve blocks and infiltration). analgesia - continuous epidural infusion or intermittent bolus epidural administration for analgesia in post operative pain or labour pain. - field block (minor nerve block amd infiltration). the choice of 2 strengths, 0.25% and 0.5%, makes it possible to vary the degree of motor blockade.

Ástralía - enska - Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)

pfizer australia pty ltd - daunorubicin, quantity: 20 mg - injection, solution - excipient ingredients: sodium chloride; water for injections; sodium hydroxide; hydrochloric acid - indications as at 22 november 2004 : daunorubicin injection is indicated for the treatment of the following: acute lymphocytic (lymphoblastic) leukaemia: daunorubicin is usually reserved for use in cases shown to be resistant to other drugs. however, combined treatment with daunorubicin, vincristine and a steroid has been used in the early stages of this disease. acute myeloblastic leukaemia: daunorubicin has been used in all stages, alone or in combination with other cytotoxic agents (e.g. cytarabine). disseminated solid tumours: daunorubicin has been investigated for use in these tumours and found to be effective in some cases of disseminated neuroblastoma and rhabdomyosarcoma.