Pemetrexed Accord
pemetrexed
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Overview
This is a summary of the European public assessment report (EPAR) for Pemetrexed Accord. It explains how the Agency assessed the medicine to recommend its authorisation in the EU and its conditions of use. It is not intended to provide practical advice on how to use Pemetrexed Accord.
For practical information about using Pemetrexed Accord, patients should read the package leaflet or contact their doctor or pharmacist.
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Pemetrexed Accord : EPAR - Summary for the public (PDF/98.37 KB)
First published: 29/01/2016
Last updated: 29/01/2016
EMA/783154/2015 -
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Pemetrexed Accord : EPAR - Risk-management-plan summary (PDF/201.93 KB)
First published: 29/01/2016
Last updated: 05/03/2021
Authorisation details
Product details | |
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Name |
Pemetrexed Accord
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Agency product number |
EMEA/H/C/004072
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Active substance |
pemetrexed disodium hemipentahydrate
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International non-proprietary name (INN) or common name |
pemetrexed
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Therapeutic area (MeSH) |
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Anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) code |
L01BA04
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Generic |
This is a generic medicine, which is developed to be the same as a medicine that has already been authorised, called the reference medicine. A generic medicine contains the same active substance(s) as the reference medicine, and is used at the same dose(s) to treat the same disease(s). For more information, see Generic and hybrid medicines. |
Publication details | |
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Marketing-authorisation holder |
Accord Healthcare S.L.U.
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Revision |
9
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Date of issue of marketing authorisation valid throughout the European Union |
18/01/2016
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Contact address |
Accord Healthcare S.L.U. |
Product information
23/08/2022 Pemetrexed Accord - EMEA/H/C/004072 - IB/0021
This medicine’s product information is available in all official EU languages.
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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
Malignant pleural mesothelioma
Pemetrexed Accord in combination with cisplatin is indicated for the treatment of chemotherapy naïve patients with unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma.
Non-small cell lung cancer
Pemetrexed Accord in combination with cisplatin is indicated for the first line treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer other than predominantly squamous cell histology.
Pemetrexed Accord is indicated as monotherapy for the maintenance treatment of locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer other than predominantly squamous cell histology in patients whose disease has not progressed immediately following platinum-based chemotherapy.
Pemetrexed Accord is indicated as monotherapy for the second line treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer other than predominantly squamous cell histology.