Your healthcare provider should do blood tests to check how well your liver is working before you begin treatment with IXEMPRA and as needed during treatment. If blood tests show that you have liver problems, do not receive injections of IXEMPRA along with capecitabine. If you have liver problems, taking these medicines together could increase your chance of serious infection and death due to a very low white blood cell count (neutropenia).

You should not have your injection of IXEMPRA if you are allergic to medicines that contain Cremophor® EL* (polyoxyethylated castor oil) or if you have a low white blood cell count or a low platelet count. Continue to full Important Safety Information below

IXEMPRA a prescription medicine, used to treat breast cancer when certain medicines have not worked or no longer work can be used alone or with capecitabine.

IXEMPRA® (ixabepilone) Reimbursement and Support

Destination Access™ is a program developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb to aid patients and healthcare providers with their reimbursement and insurance needs for IXEMPRA. Ask someone in your healthcare provider’s office to call the Destination Access program at 800-861-0048. A Destination Access representative will find out if your health insurance will pay for IXEMPRA. The program may also help with preauthorization
and denied claims.

To learn more about patient assistance programs you or your loved one may qualify for, contact the Partnership for Prescription Assistance.

Destination Access™

For patient assistance and reimbursement support

Call 1-800-861-0048

7 AM to 7 PM central time

Monday through Friday

Partnership for Prescription Assistance

If you or someone you know needs help paying for medicine, call 1-888-4PPA-NOW (1-888-477-2669) or go to www.pparx.org.

What Is IXEMPRA® (ixabepilone)?

IXEMPRA is a prescription medicine used to treat locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer following certain treatments. IXEMPRA can be used alone or with another cancer medicine called Xeloda® (capecitabine).

Talking With Your
Treatment Team About IXEMPRA

You may want to ask your healthcare provider:

  • Have you heard about the Destination Access program?
  • Are there other programs to help me pay for IXEMPRA?

    • See Talking With Your Treatment Team for a full list of questions.

Chemotherapy

A type of cancer treatment that uses certain medicines to destroy cancer cells. It can also harm healthy cells

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*Cremophor is a registered trademark of BASF AG.
Xeloda is a registered trademark of Roche Laboratories.
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Chemotherapy

A type of cancer treatment that uses certain medicines to destroy cancer cells. It can also harm healthy cells

Breast Cancer

A type of cancer treatment that uses certain medicines to destroy cancer cells. It can also harm healthy cells

Anthracycline

A type of medicine that damages the DNA in cancer cells, causing them to die

Anthracycline

A type of medicine that damages the DNA in cancer cells, causing them to die

Locally advanced

Cancer that has spread from the breast to nearby tissue or lymph nodes

Lymph nodes

Small masses of tissue that are an important part of the immune system. The lymph nodes act as filters that trap harmful things in the body

Metastatic

Cancer that has spread from the breast to other parts of the body

Preauthorization

When the insurance company decides if a treatment is medically necessary for the patient and will be paid for by the insurance company

Taxane

A type of medicine that stops cancer cells from dividing

Locally advanced

Cancer that has spread from the breast to nearby tissue or lymph nodes

Metastatic

Cancer that has spread from the breast to other parts of the body

Locally advanced

Cancer that has spread from the breast to nearby tissue or lymph nodes

Locally advanced

Cancer that has spread from the breast to nearby tissue or lymph nodes

Locally advanced

Cancer that has spread from the breast to nearby tissue or lymph nodes

Metastatic

Cancer that has spread from the breast to other parts of the body

Taxane

A type of medicine that stops cancer cells from dividing

Anthracycline

A type of medicine that damages the DNA in cancer cells, causing them to die

Lymph nodes

Small masses of tissue that are an important part of the immune system. The lymph nodes act as filters that trap harmful things in the body