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Additional Information

Once a drug has been approved for marketing for a certain use, experience may show that it is also useful for other medical problems. Although these uses are not included in product labeling, rituximab is using in certain diseaseds with the following medical conditions:

• Chronic lymphocytic leukemia - a type of cancer of the blood and lymph system
• Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia - a certain type of cancer of the blood
• Immune or idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura - ITP - a blood disease

Other than the above information, there is no additional information relating to How to Use, precautions, or side effects for these uses.