Selected Safety Information
CARDIOMYOPATHY
- Administration of trastuzumab products can result in subclinical and clinical cardiac failure. The incidence and severity was highest in patients receiving a trastuzumab product with anthracycline-containing chemotherapy regimens.
- Evaluate left ventricular function in all patients prior to and during treatment with ONTRUZANT. Discontinue ONTRUZANT treatment in patients receiving adjuvant therapy and withhold ONTRUZANT in patients with metastatic disease for clinically significant decrease in left ventricular function.
INFUSION REACTIONS; PULMONARY TOXICITY
- Administration of trastuzumab products can result in serious and fatal infusion reactions and pulmonary toxicity. Symptoms usually occur during or within 24 hours of administration. Interrupt ONTRUZANT infusion for dyspnea or clinically significant hypotension. Monitor patients until symptoms completely resolve. Discontinue ONTRUZANT for anaphylaxis, angioedema, interstitial pneumonitis, or acute respiratory distress syndrome.
EMBRYO-FETAL TOXICITY
- Exposure to trastuzumab products during pregnancy can result in oligohydramnios and oligohydramnios sequence manifesting as pulmonary hypoplasia, skeletal abnormalities, and neonatal death. Advise patients of these risks and the need for effective contraception.
WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
CARDIOMYOPATHY
- Administration of trastuzumab products can result in subclinical and clinical cardiac failure. The incidence and severity was highest in patients receiving trastuzumab with anthracycline-containing chemotherapy regimens. In a pivotal adjuvant breast cancer trial, one patient who developed congestive heart failure (CHF) died of cardiomyopathy.
- Trastuzumab products can cause left ventricular cardiac dysfunction, arrhythmias, hypertension, disabling cardiac failure, cardiomyopathy, and cardiac death.
- Trastuzumab products can also cause asymptomatic decline in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF).
- Discontinue ONTRUZANT treatment in patients receiving adjuvant breast cancer therapy and withhold ONTRUZANT in patients with metastatic disease for clinically significant decrease in left ventricular function.
CARDIAC MONITORING
- Evaluate cardiac function prior to and during treatment. For adjuvant breast cancer therapy, also evaluate cardiac function after completion of ONTRUZANT.
- Conduct a thorough cardiac assessment, including history, physical examination, and determination of LVEF by echocardiogram or MUGA scan.
- Monitor frequently for decreased left ventricular function during and after ONTRUZANT treatment.
- Monitor more frequently if ONTRUZANT is withheld for significant left ventricular cardiac dysfunction.
INFUSION REACTIONS
- Administration of trastuzumab products can result in serious and fatal infusion reactions.
- Symptoms usually occur during or within 24 hours of ONTRUZANT administration.
- Interrupt ONTRUZANT infusion for dyspnea or clinically significant hypotension.
- Monitor patients until symptoms completely resolve.
- Discontinue ONTRUZANT for infusion reactions manifesting as anaphylaxis, angioedema, interstitial pneumonitis, or acute respiratory distress syndrome. Strongly consider permanent discontinuation in all patients with severe infusion reactions.
- Infusion reactions consist of a symptom complex characterized by fever and chills, and on occasion include nausea, vomiting, pain (in some cases at tumor sites), headache, dizziness, dyspnea, hypotension, rash, and asthenia.
EMBRYO-FETAL TOXICITY
- Exposure to trastuzumab products during pregnancy can result in oligohydramnios and oligohydramnios sequence manifesting as pulmonary hypoplasia, skeletal abnormalities, and neonatal death. Advise patients of these risks and the need for effective contraception.
- Verify the pregnancy status of females of reproductive potential prior to the initiation of ONTRUZANT.
- Advise pregnant women and females of reproductive potential that exposure to ONTRUZANT during pregnancy or within 7 months prior to conception can result in fetal harm.
- Advise females of reproductive potential to use effective contraception during treatment and for at least 7 months following the last dose of ONTRUZANT.
- Consider the developmental and health benefits of breastfeeding along with the mother’s clinical need for ONTRUZANT treatment and any potential adverse effects on the breastfed child from ONTRUZANT or from the underlying maternal condition.
PULMONARY TOXICITY
- Administration of trastuzumab products can result in serious and fatal pulmonary toxicity, which includes dyspnea, interstitial pneumonitis, pulmonary infiltrates, pleural effusions, noncardiogenic pulmonary edema, pulmonary insufficiency and hypoxia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and pulmonary fibrosis. Such events can occur as sequelae of infusion reactions.
- Patients with symptomatic intrinsic lung disease or with extensive tumor involvement of the lungs, resulting in dyspnea at rest, appear to have more severe toxicity.
- Discontinue ONTRUZANT in patients experiencing pulmonary toxicity.
EXACERBATION OF CHEMOTHERAPY-INDUCED NEUTROPENIA
- In randomized, controlled clinical trials, the per-patient incidences of NCI-CTC Grade 3-4 neutropenia and of febrile neutropenia were higher in patients receiving trastuzumab in combination with myelosuppressive chemotherapy as compared to those who received chemotherapy alone. The incidence of septic death was similar among patients who received trastuzumab and those who did not.
DRUG INTERACTIONS
- Patients who receive anthracycline after stopping trastuzumab products may be at increased risk of cardiac dysfunction because of trastuzumab’s long washout period based on population PK analysis. If possible, physicians should avoid anthracycline-based therapy for up to 7 months after stopping trastuzumab products. If anthracyclines are used, the patient’s cardiac function should be monitored carefully.
ADVERSE REACTIONS
- The most common adverse reactions associated with trastuzumab products in the adjuvant and metastatic breast cancer setting are fever, nausea, vomiting, infusion reactions, diarrhea, infections, increased cough, headache, fatigue, dyspnea, rash, neutropenia, anemia, and myalgia.
Definitions
MUGA = multigated acquisition
NCI-CTC = National Cancer Institute-Common Terminology Criteria
PK = pharmacokinetics
Before prescribing ONTRUZANT, please read the accompanying Prescribing Information, including the Boxed Warning about cardiomyopathy, infusion reactions (pulmonary toxicity), and embryo-fetal toxicity.
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