Rifampin Capsules and Zevalin

• Generic Name: rifampin
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Rifadin, Rifadin IV, Rimactane

• It is used to treat TB (tuberculosis).
• It is used to stop the spread of meningitis in people who carry the bacteria but are not sick with the disease.
• It may be given to you for other reasons. Talk with the doctor.

• Generic Name: ibritumomab
• Dosage Forms: injection
• Other Brand Names: Y-90 Zevalin, In-111 Zevalin

Part of a specific therapeutic regimen (ibritumomab tiuxetan therapeutic regimen) for treatment of relapsed or refractory low-grade or follicular B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) (designated an orphan drug by FDA for this use). Safety and efficacy not evaluated in patients with ≥25% involvement of bone marrow by lymphoma and/or impaired bone marrow reserve (e.g., prior myeloablative therapies, prior external beam radiation to >25% of active marrow, neutrophil count <1500/mm3).

Ibritumomab tiuxetan therapeutic regimen also used for consolidation treatment of newly diagnosed follicular NHL in patients who have achieved partial or complete response to first-line induction chemotherapy. Safety and efficacy not evaluated in patients with ≥25% involvement of bone marrow by lymphoma and/or impaired bone marrow reserve (e.g., prior myeloablative therapies, prior external beam radiation to >25% of active marrow, platelet count <150,000/mm3).