Active Ingredient: Octreotide
For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:
Subcutaneous
0.1 - 0.6 mg
From 0.1 To 0.6 mg once every day
0.15 mg
Initially 0.05 mg once or twice daily by s.c. injection. Depending on clinical response, effect on levels of tumour-produced hormones (in cases of carcinoid tumours, on the urinary excretion of 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid), and on tolerability, dosage can be gradually increased to 0.1 to 0.2 mg 3 times daily. Under exceptional circumstances, higher doses may be required. Maintenance doses have to be adjusted individually.
In carcinoid tumours, if there is no beneficial response within 1 week of treatment with octreotide at the maximum tolerated dose, therapy should not be continued.
Octreotide may be administered directly by subcutaneous (s.c.) injection or by intravenous (i.v.) infusion after dilution.
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