Complete adverse effect profile including incidence rates and management
Important Safety Information
This is not a complete list of all possible side effects. Contact your healthcare provider if you experience any unexpected symptoms. For serious or life-threatening side effects, seek emergency medical attention immediately.
6 ADVERSE REACTIONS The most common (incidence of greater than or equal to 20%) non-laboratory adverse reactions in order of decreasing frequency were chills, pyrexia, fatigue, tachycardia, diarrhea, febrile neutropenia, edema, rash, hypotension, alopecia, infection, hypoxia, and dyspnea.
The serious adverse reactions included: Treatment-Related Mortality [see Warnings and Precautions (5.1) ] Prolonged Severe Cytopenia [see Warnings and Precautions (5.2) ] Internal Organ Hemorrhage [see Warnings and Precautions (5.3) ] Severe Infection [see Warnings and Precautions (5.4) ] Cardiac Disorder [see Warnings and Precautions (5.5) ] Respiratory Failure [see Warnings and Precautions (5.6) ] Acute Renal Failure [see Warnings and Precautions (5.7) ] Hypersensitivity Reactions [see Warnings and Precautions (5.8) ] The most common (incidence of greater than or equal to 20%) non-laboratory adverse reactions in order of decreasing frequency were chills, pyrexia, fatigue, tachycardia, diarrhea, febrile neutropenia, edema, rash, hypotension, alopecia, infection, hypoxia, and dyspnea ( 6.1 ) To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.
at 1-833-400-IOVA (4682) or FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
6.1 Clinical Trials Experience Because clinical trials are conducted under widely varying conditions, adverse reaction rates observed in the clinical trials of a drug cannot be directly compared to rates in the clinical trials of another drug and may not reflect the rates observed in practice.
The pooled safety data described in this section reflect exposure to AMTAGVI within a regimen that included cyclophosphamide, fludarabine, and IL-2 (aldesleukin) in the global, multicenter, multicohort, open-label, single-arm clinical study in which 156 adult patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma received a single infusion of AMTAGVI [see Clinical Studies (14) ] .
The median age of the study population was 56 years (range: 20 to 79 years);
53.8% were men.
The performance status prior to tumor procurement was 68.6% with ECOG 0 and 31.4% with ECOG
Table 1 summarizes the adverse reactions that occurred in at least 10% of patients treated with AMTAGVI and Table 2 describes the laboratory abnormalities of Grade 3 or 4 that occurred in at least 10% of patients.
Table 1: Adverse Reactions Observed in at Least 10% of Melanoma Patients Treated with AMTAGVI (N=156) Adverse Reaction Any Grade n (%) Grade 3 or Higher n (%) Adverse Reactions occurred from AMTAGVI infusion to 6 months (182 days) post infusion.
5 WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS Hypersensitivity reactions: Monitor for hypersensitivity reactions during infusion ( 5.8 ) 5.1 Treatment-Related Mortality AMTAGVI is associated with treatment-related mortality.
In the clinical trial, the treatment-related mortality rate was 7.5% (N=160), including 2 deaths during the lymphodepleting period, 6 deaths within 30 days, and 4 deaths 38 to 150 days following AMTAGVI administration.
Adverse reactions associated with these deaths included severe infections (sepsis, pneumonia and encephalitis), internal organ hemorrhage (abdominal hemorrhage and intracranial hemorrhage), acute renal failure, acute respiratory failure, cardiac arrythmia, extensive ascites, liver injury, and bone marrow failure.
Because clinical trials are conducted under widely varying conditions, treatment-related mortality rates observed in the clinical trials of a drug may not reflect the rates observed in practice.
5.2 Prolonged Severe Cytopenia Patients treated with AMTAGVI may exhibit Grade 3 or higher cytopenia for weeks or longer.
Like all medications, Amtagvi can cause side effects. However, not everyone who takes this medication will experience them. Many side effects are dose-dependent and may improve as your body adjusts to the medication. Others may require dose adjustment or medical attention.
Contact your healthcare provider promptly if you experience:
Seek immediate emergency medical care if you experience signs of: