Gemcitabine specifically is a chemotherapy medication. You might be prescribed it as a treatment for a number of different cancers, including breast and bladder cancer.
This medication is involved in order to destroy the quickly dividing cancer cells. You may be given gemcitabine 200 mg into your bloodstream. It usually takes approximately 30 minutes.
You may be given treatment through a drip into your hand or arm. Your healthcare provider puts a small tube (a cannula) into one of your veins and connects the drip to it.
You might require a central line. It is basically a long plastic tube that helps give the medicine into a large vein, either in your chest or through a vein in your arm. It stays in while you’re having the treatment, which may be for a few months.
Precautions:
- Self-medication strictly needs to be avoided.
- You must verify that the pharmacy/wholesaler you want to purchase from is licensed.
- Do not accept gemcitabine, if it seems unauthentic.
- Always buy this medicine from pharmacies/wholesalers that need a genuine prescription.
- You should choose a pharmacy/wholesaler that provides you a qualified pharmacist.
- You can try to confirm the credibility of a chosen pharmacy/wholesaler or pharmacist.
- Make sure you don't fall for very low prices. Offering cheap gemcitabine price may be a trick to attract customers.
- It would be best if you buy your gemcitabine from a reputable pharmacy/wholesaler.
- You need to check the certification of a particular pharmacy/wholesaler before buying this medication.
Warnings:
- Bone marrow suppression manifested by the thrombocytopenia, anemia and neutropenia may occur with gemcitabine 1 gm as a single agent and the risks are higher when it is used with other cytotoxic medicines.
- This medicine may be responsible for causing fetal harm if given to a pregnant woman.
- Drug-induced liver failure and death, has been reported in patients receiving this medicine alone or together with other hepatotoxic drugs.
- Gemcitabine is not indicated for use in combination with radiation therapy.
- Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) may occur in patients with this medicine.
