Overview
This is a summary of the European public assessment report (EPAR) for Glivec. It explains how the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) assessed the medicine to reach its opinion in favour of granting a marketing authorisation and its recommendations on the conditions of use for Glivec.
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Glivec : EPAR - Summary for the public (PDF/89.26 KB)
First published: 18/08/2009
Last updated: 24/07/2013
EMA/726040/2012 -
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Glivec : EPAR - Risk-management-plan summary (PDF/166.31 KB)
First published: 12/02/2020
Authorisation details
Product details | |
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Name |
Glivec
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Agency product number |
EMEA/H/C/000406
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Active substance |
imatinib
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International non-proprietary name (INN) or common name |
imatinib
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Therapeutic area (MeSH) |
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Anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) code |
L01EA01
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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 |
Novartis Europharm Limited
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Revision |
45
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Date of issue of marketing authorisation valid throughout the European Union |
07/11/2001
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Contact address |
Vista Building |
Product information
27/03/2023 Glivec - EMEA/H/C/000406 - IB/0132/G
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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
Antineoplastic agents
Therapeutic indication
Glivec is indicated for the treatment of
- adult and paediatric patients with newly diagnosed Philadelphia-chromosome (bcr-abl)-positive (Ph+) chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) for whom bone-marrow transplantation is not considered as the first line of treatment;
- adult and paediatric patients with Ph+ CML in chronic phase after failure of interferon-alpha therapy, or in accelerated phase or blast crisis;
- adult and paediatric patients with newly diagnosed Philadelphia-chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (Ph+ ALL) integrated with chemotherapy;
- adult patients with relapsed or refractory Ph+ ALL as monotherapy;
- adult patients with myelodysplastic / myeloproliferative diseases (MDS / MPD) associated with platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR) gene re-arrangements;
- adult patients with advanced hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) and / or chronic eosinophilic leukaemia (CEL) with FIP1L1-PDGFRa rearrangement.
The effect of Glivec on the outcome of bone-marrow transplantation has not been determined.
Glivec is indicated for:
- the treatment of adult patients with Kit (CD 117)-positive unresectable and / or metastatic malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST);
- the adjuvant treatment of adult patients who are at significant risk of relapse following resection of Kit (CD117)-positive GIST. Patients who have a low or very low risk of recurrence should not receive adjuvant treatment;
- the treatment of adult patients with unresectable dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) and adult patients with recurrent and / or metastatic DFSP who are not eligible for surgery.
In adult and paediatric patients, the effectiveness of Glivec is based on overall haematological and cytogenetic response rates and progression-free survival in CML, on haematological and cytogenetic response rates in Ph+ ALL, MDS / MPD, on haematological response rates in HES / CEL and on objective response rates in adult patients with unresectable and / or metastatic GIST and DFSP and on recurrence-free survival in adjuvant GIST. The experience with Glivec in patients with MDS / MPD associated with PDGFR gene re-arrangements is very limited (see section 5.1). Except in newly diagnosed chronic phase CML, there are no controlled trials demonstrating a clinical benefit or increased survival for these diseases.