Daratumumab Intravenous and Tykerb

• Generic Name: daratumumab
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Darzalex

Daratumumab injection is used alone or together with other medicines to treat multiple myeloma (a type of bone marrow cancer). It is used alone in patients who have received at least 3 prior treatments that did not work well, including a proteasome inhibitor and an immunomodulatory agent, or who did not respond to both a proteasome inhibitor and an immunomodulatory agent.

Daratumumab injection is also used in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone, or bortezomib and dexamethasone, to treat patients with multiple myeloma who have received at least 1 previous treatment.

Daratumumab injection is also used together with bortezomib, melphalan, and prednisone to treat patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma who cannot receive autologous stem cell transplant.

Daratumumab injection is also used in combination with pomalidomide and dexamethasone to treat patients with multiple myeloma who have received at least two treatments (including lenalidomide and a proteasome inhibitor).

Daratumumab is to be given only by or under the supervision of your doctor.

• Generic Name: lapatinib
• Dosage Forms: tablet
• Other Brand Names: Tykerb

Tykerb (lapatinib) is a cancer medicine that interferes with the growth and spread of cancer cells in the body.

Tykerb is used to treat a certain type of hormone-related breast cancer that has progressed or spread after treatment with other cancer medicines.

In postmenopausal women, Tykerb is given in combination with a hormonal medicine called Femara (letrozole). In others, Tykerb is given together with a cancer medicine called Xeloda (capecitabine).