TEVIMBRA is a medicine that may treat certain cancers by working with your immune system. TEVIMBRA can cause your immune system to attack normal organs and tissues in any area of your body and can affect the way they work.
TEVIMBRA is a medicine that may treat certain cancers by working with your immune system. TEVIMBRA can cause your immune system to attack normal organs and tissues in any area of your body and can affect the way they work. These problems can sometimes become severe or life-threatening and can lead to death. You can have more than one of these problems at the same time. These problems may happen anytime during treatment or even after your treatment has ended.
Call or see your healthcare provider right away for new or worsening symptoms, including:
Lung problems
Intestinal problems
Liver problems
Hormone gland problems
Kidney problems
Skin problems
Problems can also happen in other organs and tissues. These are not all of the signs and symptoms of immune system problems that can happen with TEVIMBRA. Call or see your healthcare provider right away for new or worsening symptoms, which may include:
Infusion reactions that can sometimes be severe or life-threatening. Signs or symptoms of infusion reactions may include:
Rejection of a transplanted organ or tissue. Your healthcare provider should tell you what signs and symptoms you should report and monitor you, depending on the type of organ transplant that you have had.
Complications, including graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD), in people who have received a bone marrow (stem cell) transplant that uses donor stem cells (allogeneic). These complications can be serious and can lead to death. These complications may happen if you underwent transplantation either before or after being treated with TEVIMBRA. Your healthcare provider will monitor you for these complications.
Getting medical treatment right away may help keep these problems from becoming more serious.
Your healthcare provider will check you for these problems during your treatment with TEVIMBRA. Your healthcare provider may treat you with corticosteroid or hormone replacement medicines. Your healthcare provider may also need to delay or completely stop treatment with TEVIMBRA if you have severe side effects.
Before receiving TEVIMBRA, tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you:
Females who are able to become pregnant:
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.
What are the possible side effects of TEVIMBRA?
TEVIMBRA may cause serious side effects. See “What is the most important information I should know about TEVIMBRA?”
The most common side effects of TEVIMBRA in combination with platinum and fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy include: nausea, tiredness, decreased appetite, decreased red blood cell count (anemia), numbness, pain, tingling or burning in your hands or feet, decreased platelet count, decreased white blood cell counts, increase in certain liver blood tests, stomach area (abdominal) pain, decreased weight, and fever.
The most common side effects of TEVIMBRA when used alone include: increased blood sugar, decreased red blood cell and white blood cell counts, decreased salt (sodium) in your blood, decreased albumin in the blood, increase in certain liver blood tests, tiredness, muscle and bone pain, decreased weight, and cough.
These are not all the possible side effects of TEVIMBRA. Talk to your health care provider for medical advice about side effects.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
Please read the accompanying Medication Guide for for TEVIMBRA and discuss it with your doctor. The physician Prescribing Information also is available.
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