Pancreatic Cancer Medications

Cytotoxic chemotherapy, the oldest and most commonly used type of cancer treatment, halts cell division and kills rapidly growing cells. For a full list of chemotherapy drugs, click here.

Keytruda is a PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor approved for inoperable or metastatic melanoma, adjuvant treatment of melanoma after surgery, non-small-cell lung cancer, bladder (urothelial) cancer, head and neck cancer, esophageal cancer, liver cancer, kidney cancer, stomach cancer, classic Hodgkin lymphoma, primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma, Merkel cell carcinoma, cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma and pre- and post-surgery treatment of triple-negative breast cancer. It is also approved for all metastatic solid tumors with high microsatellite instability or mismatch repair deficiency mutations (MSI-H/dMMR) or high tumor mutation burden. 

Lynparza is a PARP inhibitor approved for the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer in previously treated people with harmful BRCA mutations, maintenance treatment of ovarian cancer in people responding to chemotherapy, previously treated HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer in people with BRCA mutations, maintenance treatment of pancreatic cancer in people with BRCA mutations and previously treated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in people with BRCA or other faulty DNA repair mutations.

Rozlytrek is approved for the treatment of solid tumors anywhere in the body that have NTRK gene fusions and for ROS1-positive non-small-cell lung cancer.

Sutent is a kinase inhibitor approved for treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumor, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors and advanced kidney cancer (renal cell carcinoma), and for adjuvant treatment of high-risk kidney cancer after surgery.

Tarceva is an EGFR inhibitor approved for the treatment of metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with EGFR mutations, and as first-line therapy for locally advanced, inoperable or metastatic pancreatic cancer, in combination with gemcitabine chemotherapy.

Vitrakvi is a TRK inhibitor that works against cancers anywhere in the body with NTRK gene fusions.