Is Adcetris chemotherapy?
Adcetris is a chemotherapy medication. It is a CD30-directed antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) consisting of three components:
the chimeric IgG1 antibody cAC10, specific for human CD30
the microtubule disrupting agent MMAE
a protease-cleavable linker that covalently attaches MMAE to cAC10.
Is Adcetris FDA approved?
The FDA approved the medicine Adcetris 50 mg in 2011 for the treatment of patients with Hodgkin lymphoma and systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma.