Drug brand Lortinib (150 mg) is being manufactured and marketed by RPG Life Sciences Ltd. The main active ingredient or salt in this drug is Erlotinib. This drug comes in the form of Tablet. The general packing available for this medicine consists of 10 Tablet and is priced at Rs 11.00 (arround $0.154 US Dollar)
The main active ingredient or salt in Lortinib (150 mg) is Erlotinib.
Erlotinib is used to treat non-small cell lung cancer that has spread to nearby tissues or to other parts of the body in patients who have already been treated with at least one other chemotherapy medication and have not gotten better. Erlotinib is also used in combination with another medication (gemcitabine
Gemzar
) to treat pancreatic cancer that has spread to nearby tissues or to other parts of the body. Erlotinib is in a class of medications called kinase inhibitors. It works by blocking the action of an abnormal protein that signals cancer cells to multiply. This helps slow or stop the spread of cancer cells.
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Generic Drug Substitutes for : Lortinib (150 mg)
There are 1 brands listed here as Generic Substitutes for Lortinib (150 mg), which have same salt or similar Generic composition (i.e. Erlotinib-150 mg). Please note that one can request a doctor or pharmacist to substitute a generic version of the prescribed drug brand, if any. So far as quality and performance of generic version is concerned, mostly, Generics with the same active ingredient (here i.e. Erlotinib-150 mg), are just as appropriate and effective for patient treatment as otherwise, the prescribed branded one