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Pancreatic Cancer Medications

Here's a list of the approved drugs to treat pancreatic cancer. Click on any of the medications for more info on indications, dosing and side effects.


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DRUG Chemotherapy
GENERIC NAME Multiple
DRUG INDICATION

Cytotoxic chemotherapy, the oldest and most commonly used type of cancer treatment, halts cell division and kills rapidly growing cells. For a full list of chemotherapy drugs, click here.

DRUG Keytruda
GENERIC NAME pembrolizumab
DRUG INDICATION

Keytruda is a PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor approved for inoperable or metastatic melanoma, adjuvant treatment of melanoma after surgery, non-small-cell lung cancer, bladder (urothelial) cancer, head and neck cancer, esophageal cancer, liver cancer, kidney cancer, stomach cancer, classic Hodgkin lymphoma, primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma, Merkel cell carcinoma, cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma and pre- and post-surgery treatment of triple-negative breast cancer. It is also approved for all metastatic solid tumors with high microsatellite instability or mismatch repair deficiency mutations (MSI-H/dMMR) or high tumor mutation burden. 

DRUG Lynparza
GENERIC NAME olaparib
DRUG INDICATION

Lynparza is a PARP inhibitor approved for the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer in previously treated people with harmful BRCA mutations, maintenance treatment of ovarian cancer in people responding to chemotherapy, previously treated HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer in people with BRCA mutations, maintenance treatment of pancreatic cancer in people with BRCA mutations and previously treated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in people with BRCA or other faulty DNA repair mutations.

DRUG Rozlytrek
GENERIC NAME entrectinib
DRUG INDICATION

Rozlytrek is approved for the treatment of solid tumors anywhere in the body that have NTRK gene fusions and for ROS1-positive non-small-cell lung cancer.

DRUG Sutent
GENERIC NAME sunitib
DRUG INDICATION

Sutent is a kinase inhibitor approved for treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumor, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors and advanced kidney cancer (renal cell carcinoma), and for adjuvant treatment of high-risk kidney cancer after surgery.

DRUG Tarceva
GENERIC NAME erlotinib
DRUG INDICATION

Tarceva is an EGFR inhibitor approved for the treatment of metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with EGFR mutations, and as first-line therapy for locally advanced, inoperable or metastatic pancreatic cancer, in combination with gemcitabine chemotherapy.

DRUG Vitrakvi
GENERIC NAME larotrectinib
DRUG INDICATION

Vitrakvi is a TRK inhibitor that works against cancers anywhere in the body with NTRK gene fusions.


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