Description
Gemcitabine hydrochloride is approved to be used alone or with other drugs to treat:
- Breast cancer that cannot be treated with or that did not respond to chemotherapy that included an anthracycline drug. It is used with paclitaxel as the first therapy for cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.
- Non-small cell lung cancer. It is used with cisplatin in patients whose cancer is stage IIIA, stage IIIB, or stage IV.
- Ovarian cancer that is advanced and has relapsed at least 6 months after treatment with platinum chemotherapy. It is used with carboplatin.
- Pancreatic cancer. It is used alone in patients whose cancer is stage II or stage III and cannot be removed by surgery or stage IV. It is used in patients whose cancer has been treated with fluorouracil.
Gemcitabine hydrochloride is also being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer.
