Description
NANOPARTICLE ALBUMIN-BOUND PACLITAXEL is a chemotherapy drug. It targets fast dividing cells, like cancer cells, and causes these cells to die. This medicine is used to treat advanced breast cancer, lung cancer, and pancreatic cancer.
Paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation is approved to be used alone or with other drugs to treat:
- Breast cancer that has relapsed or spread to other parts of the body after treatment with other chemotherapy.
- Non-small cell lung cancer that has spread. It is used with carboplatin as the first treatment in patients whose cancer cannot be treated with surgery or radiation therapy.
- Pancreatic cancer that has spread to other parts of the body. It is used with gemcitabine hydrochloride as the first treatment.
Paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation is a form of paclitaxel contained in nanoparticles (very tiny particles of protein). The drug is also called nanoparticle paclitaxel and protein-bound paclitaxel.
