Avelumab and Mycophenolate

• Generic Name: avelumab
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Bavencio

Avelumab is used to treat a type of skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma in adults and children at least 12 years old, when the cancer has spread to other parts of the body (metastatic).

Avelumab is also used to treat a certain type of cancer of the bladder or urinary tract that has spread or cannot be removed with surgery. Avelumab is given for this condition after platinum cancer medicines did not work or have stopped working.

Avelumab is also used alone or in combination with another medicine called axitinib to treat advanced kidney cancer that has spread or cannot be removed with surgery.

Avelumab may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.

• Generic Name: mycophenolate mofetil
• Dosage Forms: capsule
• Other Brand Names: Cellcept, Myfortic, MMF

Mycophenolate mofetil weakens your body's immune system, to help keep it from "rejecting" a transplanted organ such as a kidney. Organ rejection happens when the immune system treats the new organ as an invader and attacks it.

Mycophenolate mofetil is used with other medicines to prevent organ rejection after a kidney, liver, or heart transplant.

Mycophenolate mofetil may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.