Hycamtin Intravenous and Methoxsalen Hard-Gelatin Capsules

• Generic Name: topotecan
• Dosage Forms: injection, powder, lyophilized, for solution
• Other Brand Names: Hycamtin

Topotecan injection is used to treat patients with metastatic cancer (a cancer that has already spread) of the ovaries after other treatments have failed. This medicine is also used to treat a certain type of lung cancer called small cell lung cancer. It is also used in combination with cisplatin to treat cancer of the cervix that has come back and cannot be treated with surgery or radiation.

Topotecan belongs to the group of medicines called antineoplastics. It interferes with the growth of cancer cells, which are eventually destroyed. Since the growth of normal cells may also be affected by the medicine, other effects may also occur. Some of these may be serious and must be reported to your doctor. Other effects, like hair loss, may not be serious but may cause concern. Some effects may occur after treatment with topotecan has been stopped.

This medicine is to be given only by or under the direct supervision of your doctor.

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

  8-Mop, Oxsoralen-Ultra, Uvadex

• It is used to treat psoriasis.
• It is used to treat a type of lymphoma that affects the skin.
• It is used to treat white patches on your skin (vitiligo).