(MYE toe MYE sin) Brand: Mutamycin
• Mitomycin can lower blood cells that help your body fight infections and help your blood to clot. You may get an infection or bleed more easily. Call your doctor at once if you have unusual bruising or bleeding, pale skin, confusion, tiredness or irritability, stomach pain, bloody diarrhea, red or pink urine, swelling, rapid weight gain, and few or no urinating.
• Mitomycin is a cancer medicine that interferes with the growth and spread of cancer cells in the body.
• Mitomycin is used in combination with another cancer medications to treat cancer of the stomach and pancreas.
• Mitomycin treats only the symptoms of stomach or pancreatic cancer but does not treat the cancer itself.
• Mitomycin may also be used for purposes not listed in this medicine guide.
• You must not use mitomycin if you are allergic to it, or if you have:
· bleeding or blood clotting mess such as hemophilia;
· bone marrow suppression; or
· active bleeding or any risk of bleeding.
• To create certain mitomycin is safety for you, speak your doctor if you have:
· kidney disease;
· heart malady; or
· asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary malady (COPD), sleep apnea, or another breathing disorder.
• It is not known whether mitomycin will harm an unborn child. Speak your doctor if you are pregnant. Use effective birth control to avoid pregnancy during your treatment with mitomycin. Follow your doctor's instructions about how long to prevent pregnancy after your treatment ends.
• Mitomycin can pass into breast milk and may harm a nursing child. You must not breast-feed while using this medicine.
• Mitomycin is injected into a vein through an IV. A healthcare provider will give you this injection.
• Speak your caregivers if you feel any burning, pain, or swelling near the IV needle when mitomycin is injected.
• Some people receiving mitomycin have developed ulcers on the skin where an injection was given, or on another areas of body. Skin changes may occur different weeks or months after a mitomycin injection. Call your doctor if you announcement any redness, sores, oozing, or another skin changes during or after your treatment with mitomycin.
• Mitomycin can lower blood cells that help your body fight infections and help your blood to clot. Your blood will need to be tested often. Your cancer treatments may be delayed based on the results of these trials. Mitomycin can have long lasting effects on your body. You may need frequent medical trials for a short time after you stop using this medicine.
• Call your doctor for instructions if you miss an appointment for your mitomycin injection.
• Since this medicine is given by a healthcare professional in a medical setting, an overdose is unlikely to occur.
• Avoid being around people who are sick or have infections. Speak your doctor at once if you develop signs of infection.
• Avoid activities that may magnify your risk of bleeding or injury. Use extra care to prevent bleeding while shaving or brushing your teeth.
• Do not receive a "live" vaccine while using mitomycin. Live vaccines include measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), rotavirus, typhoid, yellow fever, varicella (chickenpox), zoster (shingles), and nasal flu (influenza) vaccine.
• This medication can pass into body fluids (including urine, feces, vomit, semen, vaginal fluid). For at least 48 hours after you receive a doze, avoid allowing your body fluids to come into contact with your hands or another surfaces. Patients and caregivers must wear rubber gloves while cleaning up body fluids, handling contaminated trash or laundry or changing diapers. Wash hands till and after removing gloves. Wash soiled clothing and linens apart from another laundry.
• Body fluids must not be handled by a woman who is pregnant or who may become pregnant. Use condoms during sexual activity to avoid exposure to body fluids.
• Get abnormal medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficult breathing; swelling of your person, lips, tongue, or throat.
• Call your doctor at once if you have:
· bronchospasm (wheezing, chest tightness, trouble breathing);
· blisters or ulcers in your mouth, red or swollen gums, trouble swallowing;
· pain, burning, swelling, redness, warmth, irritation, or skin changes where the injection was given;
· confusion, feeling weary or irritable, stomach pain, bloody diarrhea;
· red or pink urine, few or no urinating, swelling, rapid weight gain;
· light bruising, unusual bleeding (nose, mouth, vagina, or rectum), purple or red pinpoint spots under your skin; or
· pale skin, feeling light-headed or short of breath, rapid heart course, trouble concentrating.
• General side effects may include:
· nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite;
· drowsiness, headache;
· blurred vision; or
· temporary hair loss.
• This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may message side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
• Another drugs may interact with mitomycin, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal commodity. Speak every of your health care providers about all medicines you use now and any medication you start or stop using.
• Your doctor or pharmacist can provide more information about mitomycin.
Remember, hold this and all another medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use this medicine only for the indication prescribed.
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