SOMATULINE DEPOT is a prescription medicine used in adults for:- the long-term treatment of people with acromegaly when surgery or radiotherapy have not worked well enough or a patient is unable to have surgery or radiotherapy;
- the treatment of a type of cancer known as neuroendocrine tumors, from the gastrointestinal tract or the pancreas (GEP-NETs) that has spread or cannot be removed by surgery; and
- the treatment of carcinoid syndrome to reduce the need for the use of short-acting somatostatin medicine.
It is not known if SOMATULINE DEPOT is safe and effective in children.
Tell your HCP if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away. These are not all the possible side effects of SOMATULINE DEPOT. For more information, ask your HCP.
SOMATULINE DEPOT is a prescription medicine used in adults for:- the long-term treatment of people with acromegaly when surgery or radiotherapy have not worked well enough or a patient is unable to have surgery or radiotherapy;
- the treatment of a type of cancer known as neuroendocrine tumors, from the gastrointestinal tract or the pancreas (GEP-NETs) that has spread or cannot be removed by surgery; and
- the treatment of carcinoid syndrome to reduce the need for the use of short-acting somatostatin medicine.
It is not known if SOMATULINE DEPOT is safe and effective in children.
To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. at 1-855-463-5127 or FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
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Somatuline Depot is supplied in a single, sterile, prefilled, ready-to-use polypropylene syringe in strengths of 120 mg/0.5 mL for gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumor and carcinoid syndrome patients, and in 120 mg/0.5 mL, 90 mg/0.3 mL, and 60 mg/0.2 mL for patients with acromegaly.
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