Hydroxychloroquine Tablets and Trifluridine and Tipiracil Hydrochloride

• Generic Name: hydroxychloroquine
• Dosage Forms: tablet, film coated
• Other Brand Names: Plaquenil, Quineprox

Hydroxychloroquine is a quinoline medicine used to treat or prevent malaria, a disease caused by parasites that enter the body through the bite of a mosquito. Malaria is common in areas such as Africa, South America, and Southern Asia. This medicine is not effective against all strains of malaria.

Hydroxychloroquine is also an antirheumatic medicine and is used to treat symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis and discoid or systemic lupus erythematosus.

• Generic Name: tipiracil / trifluridine
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Lonsurf

Treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer previously treated with fluoropyrimidine-, oxaliplatin-, and irinotecan-containing regimens; a vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitor (anti-VEGF therapy); and, in patients with tumors bearing wild-type (nonmutated) KRAS gene, an epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor (anti-EGFR therapy).