Stimufend is a medicine used in patients with cancer to help with neutropenia (low levels of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell), which is a common side effect of cancer treatment and can leave patients vulnerable to infections. It is given specifically to reduce the duration of neutropenia and prevent febrile neutropenia (neutropenia accompanied by fever). Stimufend is not intended for use in patients with the blood cancer chronic myeloid leukaemia or with myelodysplastic syndromes (conditions where large numbers of abnormal blood cells are produced, which can develop into leukaemia). Stimufend is a ‘biosimilar medicine’. This means that Stimufend is highly similar to another biological medicine (the ‘reference medicine’) that is already authorised in the EU. The reference medicine for Stimufend is Neulasta. Stimufend contains the active substance pegfilgrastim.
Therapeutic Indication
Reduction in the duration of neutropenia and the incidence of febrile neutropenia in adult patients treated with cytotoxic chemotherapy for malignancy (with the exception of chronic myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndromes).
Therapeutic Area (MeSH)
N/AATC Code
L03AA13
ATC Item
N/A
Pharmacotherapeutic Group
N/A
Active Substance (Summary)
INN / Common Names
EMA Name
Stimufend
Medicine Name
Stimufend
Aliases
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