Oral etoposide for children and young people
Published: Jan 2023
Next review: Jan 2026
Etoposide is a chemotherapy medicine commonly used in the treatment of certain types of cancer and leukaemia. This factsheet provides information on the use of oral etoposide in children and young people with cancer.
For most medicines, information is provided by the manufacturer in the medicine package. However, this does not always tell you everything you need to know about the use of this medicine in children and young people. We have written this factsheet to give you some extra information.
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How this resource was made
This factsheet was reviewed by Ghazala Javid, Senior Paediatric Oncology & Haematology Pharmacist, University Hospitals of Leicester and the Neonatal & Paediatric Pharmacists Group (NPPG) Paediatric Oncology Pharmacy Steering Committee on behalf of the CCLG Information Advisory Group, comprising parents, survivors and multiprofessional experts in the field of children’s cancer.
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