Pharmacia & Upjohn Company

Farmitalia Carlo Erba S.p.a.

Farmitalia Carlo Erba S.r.l.

Pharmacia & Upjohn

Diego Oldani

Luciano Gambini

Gaetano Gatti

Carlo Confalonieri

Giuseppe Bottoni

Roberto De Ponti

Alessandro Rigamonti

Gaetano Battelli

Carlo Confalonier

Carlo Confalconieri

According to the invention there is provided a sterile, pyrogen-free, ready-to-use solution of an anthracycline glycoside, especially doxorubicin, which consists essentially of a physiologically acceptable salt of an anthracycline glycoside dissolved in a physiologically acceptable solvent therefor, which has not been reconstituted from a lyophilizate and which has a pH of from 2.5 to 6.5. The solution of the invention is particularly advantageous for the administration by injection of the anthracycline glycoside drugs. e.g. doxorubicin, in the treatment of both human and animal tumors.

Injectable ready-to-use solutions containing an antitumor anthracycline glycoside

A sealed glass container containing therein a stable, injectable, sterile, pyrogen-free doxorubicin anti-tumor composition in a solution which consists essentially of a physiologically acceptable salt of doxorubicin dissolved in a physiologically acceptable solvent therefor, wherein said solution has not been reconstituted from a lyophilizate, and wherein said solution has a pH of from 2.5-3.5 and a concentration of said doxorubicin of from 0.1 to 100 mg/ml.

According to the invention there is provided a sterile, pyrogen-free, ready-to-use solution of an anthracycline glycoside, especially doxorubicin, which consists essentially of a physiologically acceptable salt of an anthracycline glycoside dissolved in a physiologically acceptable solvent therefor, which has not been reconstituted from a lyophilizate and which has a pH of from 2.5 to 6.5. The solution of the invention is particularly advantageous for the administration by injection of the anthracycline glycoside drugs, e.g. doxorubicin, in the treatment of both human and animal tumors.

Injectable ready-to-use solutions containing an antitumor anthracycline

A sealed glass container containing therein a stable, injectable, sterile, pyrogen-free doxorubicin anti-tumor composition in a solution which consists essentially of a physiologically acceptable salt of doxorubicin dissolved in a physiologically acceptable solvent therefor, wherein said solution has not been reconstructed from a lyophilizate, and wherein said solution has a pH of from 2.5-3.5 and a concentration of said doxorubicin of from 0.1 to 100 mg/ml.

Stable, rapidly soluble, lyophilized injectable preparations comprising an anthracycline glycoside, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as the active drug substance, and use of said preparations in the treatment of tumors.

Method of treating tumors with a pharmaceutical composition containing

Method of treating tumors with pharmaceutical composition containing

Pharmaceutical compositions containing anthracycline glycosides

The present invention relates to the preparation of sterile and stable freeze-dried forms of Cisplatinum containing from 10 to 50 mg of active ingredient, which can be obtained on an industrial scale and which have particular characteristics of facility and rapidity of dissolution which permit them to be used in a more advantageous and rational manner in antitumor chemotherapy, as compared with the freeze-dried forms of Cisplatinum presently on the market. These particular characteristics are achieved as the result of employing special ingredients in respect of formulation (concentration of the solution to be freeze-dried, introduction of alcohols, adjustment of the pH of the solution to an appropriate value), and as the result of using a manufacturing technique having as its final stage the freeze-drying of Cisplatinum in a water-alcoholic medium. The manufacturing method, and in particular the freeze-drying process, have shown themselves to be economically advantageous, and have made it possible to overcome the very considerable problems connected with the freeze-drying of Cisplatinum in aqueous medium (breakage of containers, very low yields), as well as to obtain preparations perfectly adapted to be used therapeutically by intravenous administration.

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