Treatment with INTRON® A
One big decision
Today, doctors and researchers know more than ever about how cancer cells develop, grow, and spread. This means that - even with a diagnosis like malignant melanoma - you have powerful medical options that can work with your body's own cancer-fighting system.
INTRON® A gives you a chance of surviving high-risk melanoma and living without the disease coming back.
INTRON® A is the only drug that's been proven to improve survival in people with high-risk malignant melanoma who have already had surgery.
INTRON® A is the only drug that's been proven to increase the amount of time people survive without melanoma coming back.
You'll face many challenges over months of treatment, so remember the facts about INTRON® A.
Your health care team and this Web site can help guide you every step of the way through treatment.
INTRON® A (Interferon alfa-2b, recombinant) for Injection is a treatment meant for melanoma patients 18 years of age or older, whose tumors have been surgically removed but are at high risk for coming back. INTRON® A must be used within 56 days (8 weeks) after surgery.
- Cancer
- A general term for more than 100 different diseases that involve the uncontrolled increase of abnormal new cells. These cells form tumors that can destroy surrounding tissue and spread throughout the body.
- Cell
- The individual unit that makes up the tissues of the body. All living things are made up of one or more cells.
- Injection
- Use of a syringe and needle to push fluids or drugs into the body; often called a "shot."
- Malignant
- Cancerous; cells that can invade and destroy nearby tissue and spread to other parts of the body.
- Melanoma
- A highly malignant type of skin cancer that arises in melanocytes, the cells that produce pigment. Melanoma usually begins in a mole.
Why INTRON® A?
Find out why your doctor is recommending treatment with INTRON® A.
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