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Gliadel

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Gliadel®
Neurosurgery A chemotherapy–polifeprosan + carmustine–
saturated wafer implanted during surgery to ↓ local recurrence of glioblastoma Side effects Seizures, pain, brain edema. See Glioblastoma multiforme.


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It also sells injectable Dacogen for the treatment of bone marrow disease myelodysplastic syndrome, the Gliadel Wafer for brain cancer, and Hexalen, a chemotherapy treatment for ovarian cancer.
MGI PHARMA markets Aloxi(r) (palonosetron hydrochloride) Injection, Dacogen(tm) (decitabine) for Injection and Gliadel (r) Wafer (polifeprosan 20 with carmustine implant) in the United States.
On 24 November 2005, the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") published an opinion arising out of the refusal of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office to grant a supplementary protection certificate for a pharmaceutical product known as Gliadel ("the Gliadel case").
 
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