at your nearest hospital if you notice any of the following allergic type symptoms:
wheezing
swelling of the lips and mouth
difficulty in breathing
severe rash
fainting.
Tell your doctor if you notice anything else that is making you feel unwell, even if you think the problems are not connected with this medicine and are not referred to in this leaflet.
Other side effects not listed above may also occur in some people.
Do not be alarmed by this list of side effects.
You may not experience any of them.
After taking it
Storage
Store Leukeran tablets in the refrigerator where the temperature is between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius. Do not freeze.
Keep it where young children cannot reach it.
Keep your tablets in the bottle until it is time to take them.
If you take the medicine out of the bottle, it may not keep as well.
Disposal
If your doctor tells you to stop taking Leukeran or you find that the expiry date has passed, ask your pharmacist what to do with any tablets left over.
Product description
What it looks like
Leukeran tablets are brown, film-coated, round, biconvex tablets, engraved "GX EG3"on one side and "L" on the other.
Available in bottles of 25 tablets.
Ingredients
Active ingredient:
Each tablet contains 2 mg of chlorambucil.
Inactive ingredients:
cellulose-microcrystalline
lactose anhydrous
silica-colloidal anhydrous
stearic acid
opadry YS-1-16655-A Brown (PI) tablet coating system consisting of macrogol 400, hypromellose, titanium dioxide, iron oxide yellow (CI77492) and iron oxide red (CI77491).
Leukeran tablets do not contain sucrose, gluten, tartrazine or any other azo dyes.
Sponsor
Aspen Pharmacare Australia Pty Limited
34-36 Chandos Street
St Leonards NSW 2065 Australia
Australian registration number: AUST R 73026
This leaflet was prepared in July 2010.
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