Pemetrexed Krka

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This medicine is authorised for use in the European Union.

Overview

Pemetrexed Krka is a cancer medicine used to treat two types of lung cancer:

  • malignant pleural mesothelioma (a cancer of the lining of the lungs that is usually caused by exposure to asbestos), where it is used together with cisplatin in patients who have not received chemotherapy before and whose cancer cannot be removed by surgery;
  • advanced non-small-cell lung cancer of the kind known as ‘non-squamous’, where it is used either in combination with cisplatin in previously untreated patients or on its own in patients who have previously received cancer treatment. It can also be used as a maintenance treatment in patients who have received platinum-based chemotherapy.

Pemetrexed Krka contains the active substance pemetrexed. It is a ‘generic medicine’. This means that Pemetrexed Krka contains the same active substance and works in the same way as a ‘reference medicine’ already authorised in the EU called Alimta.

This EPAR was last updated on 22/02/2023

Authorisation details

Product details
Name
Pemetrexed Krka
Agency product number
EMEA/H/C/003958
Active substance
pemetrexed disodium
International non-proprietary name (INN) or common name
pemetrexed
Therapeutic area (MeSH)
  • Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
  • Mesothelioma
Anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) code
L01BA04
GenericGeneric

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
Marketing-authorisation holder
KRKA d.d.
Revision
6
Date of issue of marketing authorisation valid throughout the European Union
22/05/2018
Contact address

Šmarješka cesta 6
8501 Novo mesto
Slovenia

Product information

15/02/2023 Pemetrexed Krka - EMEA/H/C/003958 - R/0009

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Pharmacotherapeutic group

Antineoplastic agents

Therapeutic indication

Malignant pleural mesothelioma

Pemetrexed Krka in combination with cisplatin is indicated for the treatment of chemotherapy naïve patients with unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma.

Non-small cell lung cancer

Pemetrexed Krka 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 Krka 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 Krka 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.

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