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Sprycel

Good morning, I've been taking Sprycel 140mg since July 28, 2018. I've been trying to find out if Sprycel contains steriod(s) ?

Sprycel is not a steroid. Sprycel contains only sprycel which is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor.

Sprycell contains the following active ingredient dasatinib monohydrate plus the following excipients: 

List of excipients

Tablet core

Lactose monohydrate

Microcrystalline cellulose

Croscarmellose sodium

Hydroxypropylcellulose

Magnesium stearate

 

Film-coating

Hypromellose

Titanium dioxide (E171)

Macrogol 400

 

You would need to Google for each excipient separately to find out what it does. For instance, I have discovered that Macrogol is a laxative.

Macrogol is indeed a laxative ... but I suspect it’s in the coating for Sprycel for other reasons.

Have you ever taken a sachet or two of Movicol? That’s like 95% Macrogol - more than 13g of it in each sachet. There must be an absolute minuscule amount of it in the Sprycel coating.

David.