Ipilimumab

Therapeutic indications

Ipilimumab is indicated for:

Melanoma

Population group: only adolescents (12 years - 18 years old) , adults (18 years old or older)

Ipilimumab as monotherapy is indicated for the treatment of advanced (unresectable or metastatic) melanoma in adults and adolescents 12 years of age and older.

For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments (click for details):

Melanoma

Population group: only adolescents (12 years - 18 years old) , adults (18 years old or older)

Ipilimumab in combination with nivolumab is indicated for the treatment of advanced (unresectable or metastatic) melanoma in adults and adolescents 12 years of age and older.

Relative to nivolumab monotherapy, an increase in progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) for the combination of nivolumab with ipilimumab is established only in patients with low tumour PD-L1 expression.

For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments (click for details):

Renal cell carcinoma

Population group: only adults (18 years old or older)

Ipilimumab in combination with nivolumab is indicated for the first-line treatment of adult patients with intermediate/poor-risk advanced renal cell carcinoma.

For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments (click for details):

Mismatch repair deficient (dMMR) or microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) colorectal cancer

Population group: only adults (18 years old or older)

Ipilimumab in combination with nivolumab is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with mismatch repair deficient or microsatellite instability-high metastatic colorectal cancer after prior fluoropyrimidine-based combination chemotherapy.

For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments (click for details):

Non-small cell lung cancer, without EGFR mutation or ALK translocation

Population group: only adults (18 years old or older)

Ipilimumab in combination with nivolumab and 2 cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy is indicated for the first-line treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer in adults whose tumours have no sensitising EGFR mutation or ALK translocation.

For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments (click for details):

Malignant pleural mesothelioma

Population group: only adults (18 years old or older)

Ipilimumab in combination with nivolumab is indicated for the first-line treatment of adult patients with unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma.

For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments (click for details):

Oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Population group: only adults (18 years old or older)

Ipilimumab in combination with nivolumab is indicated for the first-line treatment of adult patients with unresectable advanced, recurrent or metastatic oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma with tumour cell PD-L1 expression ≥1%.

For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments (click for details):

Contraindications

Ipilimumab is contraindicated in the following cases:

Lactation

Lactation

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