Everolimus
Related terms
Brand Names: U.S.:
Afinitor?;Afinitor? Disperz;Zortress?
Brand Names: Canada:
Afinitor?
Uses
- It is used to treat cancer.
- It is used to treat certain kinds of kidney cysts.
- It is used to keep the body from harming the organ after an organ transplant.
- Everolimus harms cancer cells stopping their growth.
- It slows the growth or spread of cancer cells.
- It lowers the size of harmless kidney cysts.
- It helps the body accept an organ transplant.
Dosing
How to take
- To gain the most benefit, do not miss doses.
- Take this drug at the same time of day.
- Take with or without food. If you take with food, always take with the same amount and kinds of food each time.
- Take Zortress? at the same time as you take cyclosporine.
- Tablet:
- Take with a full glass of water.
- Swallow whole. Do not chew, break, or crush.
- Disperz tablets:
- Take as a liquid only. Do not swallow tablets whole.
- Mix with water as you have been told before drinking.
- Drink right after mixing. Throw away any part not used after 1 hour.
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