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Specialty therapeutic

Phelinun (melphalan)

A melphalan-based specialty medicine listed in Ribicon’s former therapeutic portfolio.

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Product overview

What it is.

  • A cancer medicine used on its own or with other cancer medicines, radiotherapy, or both.
  • Listed uses: multiple myeloma, acute lymphoblastic leukemia and acute myeloid leukemia; Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphomas; childhood neuroblastoma; ovarian cancer; and mammary adenocarcinoma, a type of breast cancer.
  • Also used with other cytotoxic medicines as conditioning treatment before stem-cell transplantation in adults and children with blood cancers and some other blood disorders in children.

Specifications

Key figures.

Strengths listed
50 mg, 200 mg

Portfolio information

From the original portfolio.

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The former site describes oncology and transplantation-related uses. Current Canadian availability, labeling, and indications require confirmation.

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