Description
Carboplatin is approved to be used alone or with other drugs to treat:
- Ovarian cancer that is advanced. It is used with other chemotherapy as first-line treatment. It is used alone as palliative treatment for disease that has recurred (come back) after earlier chemotherapy.
A drug used to treat advanced ovarian cancer that has never been treated or has come back after treatment with other anticancer drugs. It is also being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer. Carboplatin works in a way similar to the anticancer drug cisplatin and causes fewer side effects. It damages the cell’s DNA and may kill cancer cells. Carboplatin is a type of platinum compound.
