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Nivolumab (Opdivo)
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated the label for nivolumab (Opdivo®) to include new dosing and administration information.
Nivolumab can now be given at 480 mg infused every 4 weeks for most approved indications, in addition to the previously approved dosing schedule of 240 mg every 2 weeks.
The FDA also approved a shorter 30-minute infusion across all approved indications of nivolumab.
The 480 mg dose option can be used for nearly all approved indications of nivolumab. The exceptions are patients with microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair-deficient metastatic colorectal cancer.
Nivolumab is FDA-approved for the following indications:
- To treat adults with classical Hodgkin lymphoma that has relapsed or progressed after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) and brentuximab vedotin or after 3 or more lines of systemic therapy that includes autologous HSCT.
- As monotherapy for patients with BRAF V600 mutation-positive unresectable or metastatic melanoma as well as BRAF V600 wild-type unresectable or metastatic melanoma.
- In combination with ipilimumab for the treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma.
- To treat patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer with progression on or after platinum-based chemotherapy. Patients with EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations should have disease progression on FDA-approved therapy for these aberrations prior to receiving nivolumab.
- For patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma who have received prior anti-angiogenic therapy.
- To treat patients with recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck with disease progression on or after platinum-based therapy.
- For patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who have disease progression during or after platinum-containing chemotherapy or have disease progression within 12 months of neoadjuvant or adjuvant treatment with platinum-containing chemotherapy.
- To treat adult and pediatric (12 years and older) patients with microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair-deficient metastatic colorectal cancer that has progressed following treatment with a fluoropyrimidine, oxaliplatin, and irinotecan.
- For patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who have been previously treated with sorafenib.
- For the adjuvant treatment of patients with melanoma with involvement of lymph nodes or metastatic disease who have undergone complete resection.