Navelbine ® IV & Navelbine ® Oral - Vinorelbine

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NAVELBINE® Oral: administration

An innovative advance for the service to the patient

NAVELBINE® Oral = NAVELBINE® I.V.

Similar efficacy (1)

  • Response rate
  • Progression-free survival
  • Overall survival

Qualitatively comparable tolerance profile

Improved patient management

Patient comfort
  • physical (pain)
  • psychological (stress)
Patient safety
  • risks of infection due to infection
  • procedures (Port-a-cath, peripheral administration)
  • complications
Cost savings
  • nursing time
  • transportation
  • hospital cost

Correspondence of doses

NAVELBINE® Oral

NAVELBINE® I.V.

80 mg/m² 30mg/m²
60 mg/m² 25mg/m²

Administration

Once a week in a single administration

60 mg/m²/week for the first 3 administrations followed by 80 mg/m²/week depending on the blood count.

(1) Jassem J. et al : A multicenter randomized phase II study of oral vs.intravenous vinorelbine in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer patients. Ann. Oncology 2001; 12: 1375-1381

 

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