Serevent Diskhaler Disk and Tecentriq

• Generic Name: salmeterol
• Dosage Forms: Inhalation Aerosol
• Other Brand Names: Serevent Diskus, Serevent

Salmeterol is used together with other medicines (such as inhaled corticosteroids) to treat asthma and prevent bronchospasm in patients with asthma. When used regularly every day, inhaled salmeterol decreases the number and severity of asthma attacks. However, it will not relieve an asthma attack that has already started.

Salmeterol is also used to treat air flow blockage and prevent the worsening of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. This medicine is also used to prevent wheezing caused by exercise (exercise-induced bronchospasm or EIB).

Salmeterol is a long-acting bronchodilator. Bronchodilators are medicines that are breathed in through the mouth to open up the bronchial tubes (air passages) in the lungs. They relieve cough, wheezing, shortness of breath, and troubled breathing by increasing the flow of air through the bronchial tubes.

This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription.

• Generic Name: atezolizumab
• Dosage Forms: injection, solution
• Other Brand Names: Tecentriq

Tecentriq (atezolizumab) is a monoclonal antibody that affects the actions of the body's immune system. Atezolizumab strengthens your immune system to help your body fight against tumor cells.

Tecentriq is used to treat a certain type of bladder cancer and urinary tract cancer that has spread to other parts of the body or cannot be removed by surgery.

Your doctor may perform a biopsy to test your cancer for a protein called "PD-L1," or a specific genetic marker (an abnormal "EGFR" or "ALK" gene).

Tecentriq is used to treat non-small cell lung cancer that has spread to other parts of the body or cannot be removed by surgery.

Tecentriq is used in combination with the medicine paclitaxel protein-bound to treat a type of breast cancer called triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) that has spread to other parts of the body or cannot be removed by surgery, and tests positive for “PD-L1", or a specific genetic marker (an abnormal "EGFR" or "ALK" gene).

Tecentriq is also used to treat a type of lung cancer called small cell lung cancer (SCLC).

Tecentriq is sometimes given after other cancer treatments have not worked or have stopped working.