Bortezomib Accord

Bortezomib Accord is a cancer medicine used to treat multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, in the following groups of patients: - adults whose disease is getting worse after at least one other treatment and who have already had, or cannot have, blood stem-cell transplantation. In these patients, Bortezomib Accord is used either on its own or in combination with pegylated liposomal doxorubicin or dexamethasone; - previously untreated adults who cannot have high-dose chemotherapy with blood stem-cell transplantation. In these patients, Bortezomib Accord is used in combination with melphalan and prednisone; - previously untreated adults who are going to receive high-dose chemotherapy followed by blood stem-cell transplantation. In this group of patients, Bortezomib Accord is used in combination with dexamethasone, or with dexamethasone plus thalidomide. Bortezomib Accord is also used to treat mantle cell lymphoma, another blood cancer, in untreated adults who cannot have blood stem-cell transplantation. For mantle cell lymphoma, Bortezomib Accord is used in combination with rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin and prednisone. Bortezomib Accord contains the active substance bortezomib. Bortezomib Accord is a ‘generic medicine’. This means that Bortezomib Accord contains the same active substance and works in the same way as a ‘reference medicine’ already authorised in the EU called Velcade.