Bavencio
avelumab
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Overview
Bavencio is a cancer medicine used to treat adults with:
- Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC, a type of skin cancer), when the cancer has spread to other parts of the body;
- Renal cell carcinoma (RCC, a cancer of the kidney), when the cancer is advanced; Bavencio is used in combination with another cancer medicine, axitinib;
- Urothelial carcinoma (a type of bladder cancer), when the cancer is locally advanced or has spread to other parts of the body in patients whose cancer had not got worse after platinum-based chemotherapy.
Bavencio contains the active substance avelumab.
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Bavencio : EPAR - Medicine overview (PDF/158.66 KB)
First published: 13/10/2017
Last updated: 26/07/2022
EMA/584705/2022 -
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Bavencio : EPAR - Risk-management-plan summary (PDF/223.03 KB)
First published: 04/11/2019
Last updated: 30/08/2023
Authorisation details
Product details | |
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Name |
Bavencio
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Agency product number |
EMEA/H/C/004338
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Active substance |
avelumab
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International non-proprietary name (INN) or common name |
avelumab
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Therapeutic area (MeSH) |
Neuroendocrine Tumors
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Anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) code |
L01FF04
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Additional monitoring |
This medicine is under additional monitoring, meaning that it is monitored even more intensively than other medicines. For more information, see Medicines under additional monitoring. |
Publication details | |
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Marketing-authorisation holder |
Merck Europe B.V.
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Revision |
16
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Date of issue of marketing authorisation valid throughout the European Union |
18/09/2017
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Contact address |
Gustav Mahlerplein 102 |
Product information
03/08/2023 Bavencio - EMEA/H/C/004338 - IB/0041
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Product information documents contain:
- summary of product characteristics (annex I);
- manufacturing authorisation holder responsible for batch release (annex IIA);
- conditions of the marketing authorisation (annex IIB);
- labelling (annex IIIA);
- package leaflet (annex IIIB).
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Pharmacotherapeutic group
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Other antineoplastic agents
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Monoclonal antibodies
Therapeutic indication
Bavencio is indicated as monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC).
Bavencio in combination with axitinib is indicated for the first-line treatment of adult patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
Bavencio is indicated as monotherapy for the first‑line maintenance treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (UC) who are progression-free following platinum‑based chemotherapy.
Assessment history
News
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Meeting highlights from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) 7-10 December 202011/12/2020
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20/09/2019
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21/07/2017