The following serious adverse reactions are described elsewhere in the labeling: Myelosuppression [see Warnings and Precautions (5.1)] Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) [see Warnings and Precautions (5.2)] Extravasation and Tissue Injury [see Warnings and Precautions (5.3)] Ovarian Cancer The most common Grade 3 or 4 hematologic adverse reactions (incidence > 5%) were neutropenia, anemia, thrombocytopenia, and febrile neutropenia.
( 6.1 ) The most common (incidence > 5%) non-hematologic adverse reactions (all Grades) were nausea, vomiting, fatigue, diarrhea, and dyspnea. ( 6.1 ) SCLC The most common Grade 3 or 4 hematologic adverse reactions were (incidence > 5%) neutropenia, anemia, thrombocytopenia, and febrile neutropenia. ( 6.1 ) The most common (incidence > 5%) non-hematologic adverse reactions (all Grades) were asthenia, dyspnea, nausea, pneumonia, abdominal pain, and fatigue.
( 6.1 ) Cervical Cancer The most common Grade 3 or 4 hematologic adverse reactions were (incidence > 5%) neutropenia, anemia, and thrombocytopenia. ( 6.1 ) The most common (incidence > 25% and ≥ 2% higher than cisplatin alone) non-hematologic adverse reactions were pain, vomiting, and infection/febrile neutropenia. ( 6.1 ) To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation at 1-888-669-6682 or FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch .
6.1Clinical Trials Experience
Because clinical trials are conducted under widely varying conditions, adverse reaction rates observed in the clinical trials of a drug cannot be directly compared with rates in the clinical trials of another drug and may not reflect the rates observed in practice. The data in Warnings and Precautions reflect exposure to HYCAMTIN for injection from eight trials in which 879 patients with ovarian cancer or small cell lung cancer (SCLC) received HYCAMTIN for injection 1.5 mg/m 2 by intravenous infusion daily for 5 consecutive days, starting on Day 1 of a 21 day cycle and from one trial (Study GOG 0179) in which 147 patients with cervical cancer received HYCAMTIN for injection 0.75 mg/m 2 by intravenous infusion daily on Days 1, 2, and 3, with cisplatin 50 mg/m 2 by intravenous infusion on Day 1, of a 21-day cycle.
Ovarian Cancer The safety of HYCAMTIN for injection was evaluated in a randomized trial conducted in 226 patients with metastatic ovarian cancer (Study 039) [see Clinical Studies (14.1)] . Table 1 shows the incidence of Grade 3 and 4 hematologic and non-hematologic adverse reactions that occurred in patients receiving HYCAMTIN for injection. Table 1. Adverse Reactions Occurring in Greater than or Equal to 5% of Patients With Ovarian Cancer in Study 039 a Death related to sepsis occurred in 2% of patients receiving HYCAMTIN and 0% of patients receiving paclitaxel. b Pain includes body pain, skeletal pain, and back pain.
Adverse Reactions HYCAMTIN for Injection (n = 112) Paclitaxel (n = 114) Grade 3-4 (%) Grade 3-4 (%) Hematologic Grade 4 neutropenia (< 500/mm 3 ) Grade 3 or 4 anemia (Hgb < 8 g/dL) Grade 4 thrombocytopenia (< 25,000/mm 3 ) Febrile neutropenia 80 41 27 23 21 6 3 4 Non-Hematologic Infections Sepsis a 5 2 Respiratory, thoracic, and mediastinal Dyspnea 6 5 Gastrointestinal Vomiting 10 3 Nausea 10 2 Diarrhea 6 1 Abdominal pain 5 4 Intestinal obstruction 5 4 Constipation 5 0 General and administrative site conditions Fatigue 7 6 Pain b 5 7 Asthenia 5 3 Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) The safety of HYCAMTIN for injection was evaluated in randomized, comparative trial in patients with recurrent or progressive SCLC (Study 090) [see Clinical Studies (14.2)] .
Table 2 shows the Grade 3 or 4 hematologic and non-hematologic adverse reactions in patients with SCLC. Table 2. Adverse Reactions Occurring in Greater than or Equal to 5% of Patients With Small Cell Lung Cancer in Study 090 a Death related to sepsis occurred in 3% of patients receiving HYCAMTIN and 1% of patients receiving CAV. b Pain includes body pain, skeletal pain, and back pain. c CAV = cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin and vincristine.
Adverse Reactions HYCAMTIN for Injection (n = 107) CAV c (n = 104) Grade 3-4 (%) Grade 3-4 (%) Hematologic Grade 4 neutropenia (< 500/mm 3 ) Grade 3 or 4 anemia (Hgb < 8 g/dL) Grade 4 thrombocytopenia (< 25,000/mm 3 ) Febrile neutropenia 70 42 29 28 72 20 5 26 Non-Hematologic Infections Sepsis a 5 5 Respiratory, thoracic, and mediastinal Dyspnea 9 14 Pneumonia 8 6 Gastrointestinal Nausea 8 6 Abdominal pain 6 4 General and administrative site conditions Asthenia 9 7 Fatigue 6 10 Pain b 5 7 Hepatobiliary Disorders in Ovarian and Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) Based on the combined experience of 453 patients with metastatic ovarian cancer and 426 patients with SCLC treated with HYCAMTIN for injection, Grade 3 or 4 increases aspartate transaminase (AST) or alanine transaminase (ALT) occurred in 4% and Grade 3 or 4 elevated bilirubin occurred in less than 2%.
Cervical Cancer The safety of HYCAMTIN for injection was evaluated in a comparative trial of HYCAMTIN with cisplatin versus cisplatin as a single agent in patients with cervical cancer (Study GOG 0179). Table 3 shows the hematologic and non-hematologic adverse reactions in patients with cervical cancer. Table 3. Adverse Reactions Occurring in Greater than or Equal to 5% of Patients With Cervical Cancer (Between-Arm Difference ≥ 2%) a in Study GOG 0179 a Includes patients who were eligible and treated. b Severity based on using National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Toxicity Criteria (CTC), Version 2.0. c Grades 1 through 4 only.
There were 3 patients who experienced deaths with investigator-designated attribution. The first patient experienced a Grade 5 hemorrhage in which the drug-related thrombocytopenia aggravated the event. A second patient experienced bowel obstruction, cardiac arrest, pleural effusion, and respiratory failure which were not treatment-related but probably aggravated by treatment. A third patient experienced a pulmonary embolism and adult respiratory distress syndrome; the latter was indirectly treatment-related. d Constitutional includes fatigue (lethargy, malaise, asthenia), fever (in the absence of neutropenia), rigors, chills, sweating, and weight gain or loss. e Pain includes abdominal pain or cramping, arthralgia, bone pain, chest pain (non-cardiac and non-pleuritic), dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, earache, headache, hepatic pain, myalgia, neuropathic pain, pain due to radiation, pelvic pain, pleuritic pain, rectal or perirectal pain, and tumor pain. f High-level terms were included if the between-arm difference was ≥ 10%.
Adverse Reactions HYCAMTIN for Injection With Cisplatin (n = 140) % Cisplatin (n = 144) % Hematologic Neutropenia Grade 3 (< 1,000-500/mm 3 ) 26 1 Grade 4 (< 500/mm 3 ) 48 1 Anemia Grade 3 (Hgb < 8-6.5 g/dL) 34 19 Grade 4 (Hgb < 6.5 g/dL) 6 3 Thrombocytopenia Grade 3 (< 50,000-10,000/mm 3 ) 26 3 Grade 4 (< 10,000/mm 3 ) 7 0 Non-Hematologic b,c General and administrative site conditions Constitutional d 69 62 Pain e 59 50 Gastrointestinal Vomiting 40 37 Stomatitis-pharyngitis 6 0 Other 63 56 Dermatology f 48 20 Infection Febrile neutropenia f 28 18 Cardiovascular f 25 15
