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tisagenlecleucel

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Also known as CTL019, marketed as Kymriah, KYMRIAH

Tisagenlecleucel, sold under the brand name Kymriah, is a CAR T cells medication for the treatment of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) which uses the body's own T cells to fight cancer (adoptive cell transfer).

Key facts

Drug.pronounce
tis" a jen" lek loo' se/ˌtɪsədʒen'leklusel/
Drug.tradename
Kymriah
Drug.MedlinePlus
a617053
Drug.DailyMedID
Tisagenlecleucel
Drug.pregnancy_AU
C
Drug.routes_of_administration
Intravenous
Drug.ATC_prefix
L01
Drug.ATC_suffix
XL04
Drug.legal_AU_comment
C4 (class 4 biological)
Drug.legal_CA
Rx-only
Drug.legal_CA_comment
/Schedule D
Drug.legal_US
Rx-only
Drug.legal_EU
Rx-only
Drug.elimination_half life
16.8 days
Drug.CAS_number
1823078-37-0
Drug.DrugBank
DB13881
Drug.UNII
Q6C9WHR03O
Drug.KEGG
D11386

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Medication

Brand names
Kymriah
Drug class
Antineoplastic cell and gene therapy
Active ingredients
tisagenlecleucel
Dosage form
Injection
Sources: openFDA · RxNorm (NLM). Not medical advice.

Wikidata facts

Instance of
medication
Manufacturer
Novartis
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World Health Organisation international non-proprietary name
tisagenlecleucel
legal status (medicine)
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Tisagenlecleucel, sold under the brand name Kymriah, is a CAR T cells medication for the treatment of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) which uses the body's own T cells to fight cancer (adoptive cell transfer).

The most common serious side effects are cytokine release syndrome (a potentially life-threatening condition that can cause fever, vomiting, shortness of breath, pain and low blood pressure) and decreases in platelets (components that help the blood to clot), hemoglobin (the protein found in red blood cells that carries oxygen around the body) or white blood cells including neutrophils and lymphocytes.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tisagenlecleucel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.