Arsenic Compound

1 Drug classified under this drug class

Arsenic Compound. Arsenic Trioxide 1 mg/ml.
AMPS: 1, 10 x 10 ml. Admin IV over 1-2
hrs. See lit.
Induct. remission/consolidat. acute
promyelocytic leukem. (APL) when
refractory to/relapsed from retinoid and
anthracycline chemother., presence of translocat. PML/RAR-alpha gene
expression. In comb. with letrozole for
tmt. postmenopaus. women with
hormone receptor +ive metastat. breast
cancer that overexpress. HER2 recept. for
whom hormon. ther. is indicat. Ther. in
combinat. with aromatase inhib. has not
been compared to trastuzumab-contain.
chemother. regimen for tmt. of metastat.
breast cancer.
C/I: Hypersens.