Mevlyq

Mevlyq is a cancer medicine used to treat locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer which has continued to spread after at least one previous treatment for advanced cancer. Previous treatment should have included cancer medicines of the types known as anthracyclines and taxanes, unless these treatments were not suitable. ‘Metastatic’ means that the cancer has spread to other parts of the body. Mevlyq is also used to treat adults with advanced or metastatic liposarcoma (a type of cancer of the soft tissues that develops from fat cells) that cannot be surgically removed. It is used in patients who have already been treated with anthracyclines (unless this treatment was not suitable). Mevlyq is a ‘generic medicine’. This means that Mevlyq contains the same active substance and works in the same way as a ‘reference medicine’ already authorised in the EU. The reference medicine for Mevlyq is Halaven. 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). Mevlyq contains the active substance eribulin.