Seek urgent medical attention if you notice any of the following serious side effects whilst being given or after you are given Trodelvy:
Neutropenia
This is a condition where you have too few neutrophils in your blood after receiving Trodelvy, resulting in increased risk of infections. These infections can be severe, life-threatening and may lead to death, mainly early on in treatment. Seek urgent medical attention if you have the following signs and symptoms that may be due to having too few neutrophils (including infections):
- a fever (a temperature of 38.5°C or higher)
- chills or sweating
- sore throat, sores in the mouth, or a toothache
- stomach pain
- pain near the anus or sores around the anus
- pain or burning when urinating, or urinating often
- diarrhoea
- a cough or shortness of breath.
Your doctor will take blood samples to monitor neutrophils and may give a medicine to help prevent low neutrophil count while being treated with TRODELVY. You will not be given Trodelvy if the absolute neutrophil count is below a certain level on Day 1 or Day 8 of any cycle.
If your neutrophil count is too low, your doctor may need to lower your dose of TRODELVY, give you a medicine to treat low neutrophil count, or in some cases may stop TRODELVY.
Fever
Seek urgent medical attention if you have the following signs and symptoms:
- a temperature of 38.5°C or higher
- sweating
Diarrhoea
Seek urgent medical attention if you suffer from severe diarrhoea, whilst receiving Trodelvy (for example, black or bloody stools; symptoms of dehydration such as lightheadedness, dizziness, or faintness; inability to take fluids by mouth due to nausea or vomiting; or inability to get diarrhoea under control within 24 hours).
Contact your doctor or nurse the first time that you get diarrhoea. Your Trodelvy treatment will be postponed until your diarrhoea has improved.
You will be given loperamide to treat your diarrhoea, as long as you do not have an infection. If appropriate, you may also be given fluids into your veins (intravenously). Your doctor may also give you medicine, such as atropine, to help with stomach cramps, diarrhoea, and excessive saliva in mouth before your next treatment infusion. Your diarrhoea can lead to dehydration and sudden kidney damage. Talk to your doctor if you experience dark-coloured urine or decreased urine volume.
Allergic and Infusion related reactions (reactions related to your infusion of the medicine)
These reactions can be severe and life-threatening and can emerge when receiving Trodelvy.
Seek urgent medical attention if you have the following signs and symptoms of allergic and infusion related reactions:
- itching
- outbreak of swollen, pale red bumps or plaques (wheals) on the skin that appear suddenly
- fever
- a sudden attack of severe shivering accompanied by a feeling of coldness
- excessive sweating
- breathing difficulties and wheezing
- chest pain, heart palpitations.
You may be given some medicine before Trodelvy is administered to help relieve the symptoms. During each infusion of Trodelvy and for 30 minutes after, you will be closely monitored for these signs and symptoms of infusion-related reactions. Your doctor will slow down the infusion rate or stop it if you develop a serious infusion-related reaction.
Please let your doctor, pharmacist or nurse know if you have previously experienced any problems after receiving infusions, such as dizziness, feeling of fainting, difficulty breathing, breathlessness, swelling or skin rash, swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat, chills or shaking chills (rigors), and fever.
Nausea and vomiting
Seek urgent medical attention if you suffer from uncontrolled nausea or vomiting whilst receiving Trodelvy.
Your doctor will give you anti-sickness medicines before and after Trodelvy is administered to help relieve nausea and vomiting. You will not be given Trodelvy if you have severe nausea and vomiting and will only be given Trodelvy when the symptoms have been controlled.
Talk to your doctor or nurse before you are given Trodelvy if you:
- have liver problems
- have kidney problems
- are female and of child-bearing age (see ‘Pregnancy, Breast-feeding and Fertility’)
- are taking medicines to treat other conditions (see ‘Other medicines and Trodelvy’)
- have experienced any problems after receiving any infusions in the past
- have been told you carry a gene for uridine diphosphate-glucuronosyl transferase 1A1 (UGT1A1)*28
Some patients are genetically more likely to have certain side effects from Trodelvy. If you have the UGT1A1*28 gene, you are more likely to develop low white blood cell count (neutropenia), a fever while your white blood cell count is low, low level of red blood cell count (anaemia). You may also be more likely to develop other side effects after being given Trodelvy than those who do not have the gene.
See section 4. for a list of all the side effects related to Trodelvy.