What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking LUMAKRAS®?
- Before taking LUMAKRAS®, tell your healthcare provider about all your medical conditions, including if you:
- have liver problems.
- have lung or breathing problems other than lung cancer.
- are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if LUMAKRAS® will harm your unborn baby
- are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. It is not known if LUMAKRAS® passes into your breast milk.
Do not breastfeed during treatment with LUMAKRAS® and for 1 week after the final dose.
- Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, dietary and herbal supplements. LUMAKRAS® can affect the way some other medicines work, and some other medicines can affect the way LUMAKRAS® works.
- Especially tell your healthcare provider if you take antacid medicines, including Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) medicines or H2 blockers during treatment with LUMAKRAS®. Ask your healthcare provider if you are not sure.
LUMAKRAS® may cause serious side effects, including:
- Liver problems: LUMAKRAS® may cause abnormal liver blood test results. Your healthcare provider should do blood tests before starting and during treatment with LUMAKRAS® to check your liver function. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get any signs or symptoms of liver problems, including: your skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow (jaundice), dark or “tea-colored” urine, light-colored stools (bowel movements), tiredness or weakness, nausea or vomiting, bleeding or bruising, loss of appetite, and pain, aching, or tenderness on the right side of your stomach-area (abdomen).
- Lung or breathing problems: LUMAKRAS® may cause inflammation of the lungs that can lead to death.
&nbsb: Tell your healthcare provider or get emergency medical help right away if you have new or worsening shortness of breath, cough or fever.
- Your healthcare provider may change your dose, temporarily stop, or permanently stop treatment with LUMAKRAS® if you develop side effects.
The most common side effects
- The most common side effects of LUMAKRAS® include diarrhea, muscle or bone pain, nausea, tiredness, liver problems, cough, changes in liver function tests, and changes in certain blood tests.
- These are not all the possible side effects of LUMAKRAS®. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects.
What is LUMAKRAS®?
LUMAKRAS® is a prescription medicine used to treat adults with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC):
- that has spread to other parts of the body or cannot be removed by surgery, and
- whose tumor has an abnormal KRAS G12C gene, and
- who have received at least one prior treatment for their cancer.
Your healthcare provider will perform a test to make sure that LUMAKRAS® is right for you.
It is not known if LUMAKRAS® is safe and effective in children.
Please see LUMAKRAS® Patient Information.
LUMAKRAS® is a trademark of Amgen Inc.