(STREP toe zoe sin) Brand: Zanosar
• You must not receive streptozocin if you have kidney or liver malady, a bleeding or blood-clotting mess, or bone marrow suppression.
• Streptozocin can harm your liver or kidneys, and may also reason severe vomiting or diarrhea.
• While receiving streptozocin, you must be able to get to a hospital or abnormal room quickly in case you have a serious side effect. You may need frequent blood trials to create certain streptozocin is not causing deleterious effects.
• Streptozocin is a cancer medicine that interferes with the growth and spread of cancer cells in the body.
• Streptozocin is used to treat pancreatic cancer.
• Streptozocin may also be used for purposes not listed in this medicine guide.
• You must not use streptozocin if you are allergic to it.
• To create certain streptozocin is safety for you, speak your doctor if you have:
· kidney disease;
· liver disease;
· a bleeding or blood clotting mess; or
· bone marrow suppression.
• Using streptozocin may magnify your risk of developing another types of cancer, such as stomach cancer. Ask your doctor about your specific risk.
• FDA pregnancy category D. Do not use streptozocin if you are pregnant. It could harm the unborn child. Use effective birth control, and speak your doctor if you become pregnant during treatment.
• It is not known whether streptozocin passes into breast milk or if it could harm a nursing child. You must not breast-feed while using this medicine.
• Streptozocin is injected into a vein through an IV. A healthcare provider will give you this injection.
• Streptozocin 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 tests.
• Call your doctor for instructions if you miss an appointment for your streptozocin 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.
• Do not receive a "live" vaccine while using streptozocin, and avoid coming into contact with anyone who has recently received a live vaccine. There is a chance that the virus could be passed on to you. 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:
· few or no urinating, swelling, rapid weight gain;
· confusion, loss of appetite, vomiting, pain in your side or lower back;
· light bruising, unusual bleeding (nose, mouth, vagina, or rectum), purple or red pinpoint spots under your skin; or
· fever, swollen gums, painful mouth sores, pain when swallowing, skin sores, cool or flu symptoms, cough, trouble breathing.
• General side effects may include:
· mild nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, diarrhea;
· drowsiness;
· depression; or
· swelling, redness, burning, or tenderness where the medication was injected.
• 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 streptozocin, 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 streptozocin.
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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