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Summary of Product Characteristics last updated on the eMC: 17/04/2009
SPC Arimidex 1mg Film-Coated Tablet

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Updated on 17/04/2009 and displayed until Current
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to section 4.4 - Special warnings and precautions for Use
  • Change to section 4.5 - Interaction with other medicinal products and other forms of interaction
  • Change to section 4.8 - Undesirable Effects
  • Change to section 5.1 - Pharmacodynamic Properties
  • Change to section 5.2 - Pharmacokinetic Properties
  • Change to section 10 date of revision of the text
Date of revision of text on the SPC:   27-Mar-2009
Legal Category:   POM
Black Triangle (CHM):   NO

Free-text change information supplied by the pharmaceutical company

Update to sections 4.8 and 5.1 with some other consequential changes to other sections. Includes data from paediatric trials and SABRE trial.

Section 10
New revision date of text: 27 March 2009.
Updated on 15/08/2007 and displayed until 17/04/2009
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to section 4.8 - Undesirable Effects
  • Change to section 5.3 - Preclinical Safety Data
  • Change to section 10 date of revision of the text
Date of revision of text on the SPC:   07/2007
Legal Category:   POM
Black Triangle (CHM):   NO

Free-text change information supplied by the pharmaceutical company

4.8

 

Addition of text

 

Common

(³ 1% and < 10%)

 

 

Nervous system

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

 

Hepatobiliary disorders

Increases in alkaline phosphatase, alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase

 

Uncommon

(³ 0.1% and <1%)

 

Hepatobiliary disorders

Increases in gamma-GT and bilirubin

Hepatitis

 

Deletion of 3rd paragraph

 

Elevated gamma-GT and alkaline phosphatase have been reported uncommonly (³0.1% and <1%).  A causal relationship for these changes has not been established.

5.3

 

Addition of text after the 4th paragraph

 

Reproductively toxicology

Oral administration of anastrozole to female rats produced a high incidence of infertility at 1 mg/kg/day and increased pre-implantation loss at 0.02 mg/kg/day.  These effects occurred at clinically relevant doses.  An effect in man cannot be excluded.  These effects were related to the pharmacology of the compound and were completely reversed after a 5-week compound withdrawal period.

 

10

Date of revision of text 20th July 2007

 

 

Updated on 13/07/2006 and displayed until 15/08/2007
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to section 4.1 - Therapeutic Indications
  • Change to section 5.1 - Pharmacodynamic Properties
Date of revision of text on the SPC:   06/2006
Legal Category:   POM
Black Triangle (CHM):   NO

Free-text change information supplied by the pharmaceutical company

   

Section 4.1

  • Sentence added:

 

Adjuvant treatment of early breast cancer in hormone receptor positive postmenopausal women who have received 2 to 3 years of adjuvant tamoxifen.

 

Section 5.1

  • Addition of underlined heading:

 

Primary adjuvant treatment of early breast cancer

 

  • Addition of underlined heading with 2 paragraphs of text

 

Adjuvant treatment of early breast cancer for patients being treated with adjuvant tamoxifen

 

  • Addition of Table ABCSG 8 trial endpoint and results summary

and 2 paragraphs of text

Updated on 26/05/2006 and displayed until 13/07/2006
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Correction of spelling/typing errors
Updated on 16/02/2006 and displayed until 26/05/2006
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to section 3 - pharmaceutical form
  • Change to section 4.4 - Special Warnings and Precautions for Use
  • Change to section 5.1 - Pharmacodynamic Properties
  • Change to section 6.1 - List of Excipients
  • Change to section 6.2 - Incompatibilities
  • Change to section 6. 5 - Nature and Contents of Container
  • Change to section 6. 6 - Instruction for Use/Handling
Updated on 28/06/2005 and displayed until 16/02/2006
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to section 4.1 - Therapeutic Indications
  • Change to section 4.4 - Special Warnings and Precautions for Use
  • Change to section 4.8 - Undesirable Effects
  • Change to section 5.1 - Pharmacodynamic Properties
Updated on 06/12/2004 and displayed until 28/06/2005
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to section 10 (date of (partial) revision of the text
Updated on 06/08/2004 and displayed until 06/12/2004
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to section 4.4 - Special Warnings and Precautions for Use
  • Change to section 4.8 - Undesirable Effects
Updated on 25/11/2003 and displayed until 06/08/2004
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to section 4.8 - Undesirable Effects
Updated on 02/12/2002 and displayed until 25/11/2003
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Improved Electronic Presentation
Updated on 11/11/2002 and displayed until 02/12/2002
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to section 4.1 - Therapeutic Indications
  • Change to section 4.2 - Posology and Method of Administration
  • Change to section 4.3 - Contra-indications
  • Change to section 4.4 - Special Warnings and Precautions for Use
  • Change to section 4.5 - Interactions with other Medicaments and other forms of Interaction
  • Change to section 4.8 - Undesirable Effects
  • Change to section 4.9 - Overdose
  • Change to section 5.1 - Pharmacodynamic Properties
  • Change to section 10 (date of (partial) revision of the text
Updated on 26/10/2001 and displayed until 11/11/2002
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to section 7 - Marketing Authorisation Holder
Updated on 21/06/2001 and displayed until 26/10/2001
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • New SPC for eMC ie an SPC for an existing product, but one that is new for the eMC
Updated on 17/04/2001 and displayed until 21/06/2001
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • No reasons supplied
Updated on 22/11/2000 and displayed until 17/04/2001
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • No reasons supplied

Active Ingredients/Generics

 
   anastrozole


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