Nilotinib Accord

Nilotinib Accord is a medicine for treating chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML) – a blood cancer – in patients who have been newly diagnosed or who cannot take other cancer medicines (including imatinib) because they cause side effects or do not work for them. Nilotinib Accord is only for patients with a special chromosome in their cancer cells called the Philadelphia chromosome. Nilotinib Accord is used during the chronic phase of the cancer in adults and children, when the condition is developing slowly and the patient has few or no symptoms. It can also be used in adults during the accelerated phase (when the cancer cells are dividing rapidly and the patient may have more symptoms). Nilotinib Accord contains the active substance nilotinib and is a ‘generic medicine’. This means that Nilotinib Accord contains the same active substance and works in the same way as a ‘reference medicine’ already authorised in the EU. The reference medicine for Nilotinib Accord is Tasigna. For more information on generic medicines, see the question-and-answer document [here](https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/other/questions-and-answers-generic-medicines_en.pdf).