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Yervoy
ipilimumab
Adult Dosing .
Dosage forms: INJ
Special Note
- [uses, dosing may vary]
- Info: refer to institution protocols and pkg insert prior to prescribing for uses and dosing including toxicity-related dose adjustments
melanoma
- [adjuvant tx]
- Dose: 3 mg/kg/dose IV q3wk for max 4 doses, then 3 mg/kg/dose IV q12wk for up to 4 doses; Info: for cutaneous disease with regional lymph nodes involvement that have undergone complete resection
- [unresectable or metastatic disease]
- Dose: 3 mg/kg/dose IV q3wk x4 doses; Max: 4 doses; Info: complete tx within 16wk after 1st dose; use as monotherapy or with nivolumab
renal cell CA, advanced
- [1 mg/kg/dose IV q3wk x4 doses]
- Max: 4 doses; Info: for patients with previously untreated intermediate or poor risk disease; first-line tx; use with nivolumab
microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair deficient colorectal CA, unresectable or metastatic
- [1 mg/kg/dose IV q3wk x4 doses]
- Max: 4 doses; Info: use with nivolumab
hepatocellular CA
- [3 mg/kg/dose IV q3wk for up to 4 doses]
- Info: for sorafenib refractory or intolerant disease; use with nivolumab
non-small cell lung CA
- [PD-L1-expressing metastatic disease]
- Dose: 1 mg/kg/dose IV q6wk for up to 2y; Info: for patients with no EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations; first-line tx; use with nivolumab
- [metastatic or recurrent disease]
- Dose: 1 mg/kg/dose IV q6wk for up to 2y; Info: for patients with no EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations; first-line tx; use with nivolumab and 2 cycles of q3wk histology-based platinum-doublet chemo
malignant pleural mesothelioma, unresectable
- [1 mg/kg/dose IV q6wk for up to 2y]
- Info: first-line tx; use with nivolumab
esophageal CA
- [1 mg/kg/dose IV q6wk for up to 2y]
- Info: for patients with PD-L1-expressing unresectable advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; first-line tx; use with nivolumab
renal dosing
- [see below]
- CrCl >15: no adjustment; CrCl <15: not defined
- HD/PD: not defined
hepatic dosing
- [see below]
- bilirubin 1.1-1.5x ULN or AST >ULN: no adjustment; bilirubin >1.5x ULN: not defined
Peds Dosing .
- Dosage forms: INJ
Special Note
- [uses, dosing may vary]
- Info: refer to institution protocols and pkg insert prior to prescribing for uses and dosing including toxicity-related dose adjustments
melanoma, unresectable or metastatic
- [12 yo and older]
- Dose: 3 mg/kg/dose IV q3wk x4 doses; Max: 4 doses; Info: complete tx within 16wk after 1st dose; use as monotherapy or with nivolumab
microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair deficient colorectal CA, unresectable or metastatic
- [12 yo and older]
- Dose: 1 mg/kg/dose IV q3wk x4 doses; Max: 4 doses; Info: use with nivolumab
renal dosing
- [see below]
- CrCl >15: no adjustment; CrCl <15: not defined
- HD/PD: not defined
hepatic dosing
- [see below]
- bilirubin 1.1-1.5x ULN or AST >ULN: no adjustment; bilirubin >1.5x ULN: not defined