Én patient havde et vellykket selvmordsforsøg, men selv om selvmordstanker er kendt for at være mere almindelige hos patienter med cancer end i befolkningen som helhed, har hverken selvmord eller selvmordstanker været rapporteret som en uønsket hændelse forbundet med Actiq eller Fentora/ Effentora, og på baggrund af at den farmakokinetiske profil for Rapinyl ligner profilen for Actiq, mener ansøgeren, at dette var et sporadisk tilfælde, hvilket stemmer overens med investigators vurdering af, at hændelsen ikke er relateret.
One patient had a successful suicide attempt but while suicidal ideation is known to be more common in patients with cancer than in the general population, neither suicide nor suicidal ideation has been reported as an adverse event associated with Actiq nor with Fentora/ Effentora and based on the similar pharmacokinetic profile of Rapinyl and Actiq, the Applicant believes that this was a sporadic case, consistent with the investigator’ s assessment as being unrelated.