Description and Brand Names

Drug information provided by: Merative, Micromedex®

US Brand Name

  1. Akeega

Descriptions


Note: Women of childbearing potential should not use or handle niraparib and abiraterone tablets without protection (eg, gloves).

Niraparib and abiraterone combination is used in combination with prednisone to treat metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (prostate cancer that is resistant to medical or surgical treatments that lower testosterone and has spread to other parts of the body) with a deleterious or suspected deleterious BRCA mutation gene. Your doctor will use a test to check for this mutation before you receive the medicine.

This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription.

This product is available in the following dosage forms:

  • Tablet