Generic name:pazopanib [ paz-OH-pa-nib ]
Drug class:VEGF/VEGFR inhibitors
What is Votrient?
Votrient is a cancer medicine that interferes with the growth and spread of cancer cells in the body. Pazopanib is a cancer medicine that interferes with the growth and spread of cancer cells in the body.
Votrient is used to treat advanced renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer).
Votrient is also used to treat soft tissue sarcoma (a tumor that can develop in or around muscles, tendons, joints, organs, or blood vessels).
Votrient is usually given after other cancer medications have been tried without successful treatment of soft tissue sarcoma.
Warnings
You should not use Votrient if you have severe liver disease. Pazopanib can cause severe or life-threatening liver problems. You will need frequent blood tests to check your liver function.
Call your doctor at once if you have:nausea, vomiting, upper stomach pain, loss of appetite, tiredness, easy bruising, dark urine, or jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes).
Votrient can lower blood cells that help your body fight infections and help your blood to clot. You may get an infection or bleed more easily. Call your doctor if you have unusual bruising or bleeding, or signs of infection (fever, chills, body aches).
Before taking this medicine
To make sure Votrient is safe for you, tell your doctor if you have ever had:
heart disease, heart rhythm disorder, long QT syndrome;
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