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Brand-name prescription medicine

Arranon

Generic name: Nelarabine

FDA application holder: Sandoz

Official data, not advice

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Quick answers

What is Arranon?
Arranon is a brand name of Nelarabine, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Arranon product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Arranon?
Sandoz holds the FDA application for Arranon (NDA021877, approved October 28, 2005).
Is there a generic or store brand of Arranon?
Yes. The FDA NDC Directory lists 13 other products with the same active ingredients, strength and form as a Arranon product, 13 of them generic. Ask your pharmacist whether one is right for you.
Has Arranon been recalled?
No recall linked to Arranon products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Arranon is

Each Arranon product as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, by active ingredient, strength and form, with its official label. “Same medicine, other names” counts the other products with exactly the same active ingredients, strength and form (generic versions, store brands and other brands); inactive ingredients can differ.

Nelarabine · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
nelarabine 5 mg/mL
injection (intravenous)
Arranon 13 products, 11 companies DailyMed

Its page lists every product and company, the FDA label’s uses and boxed warning, approvals, shortages and recalls: Nelarabine →

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Arranon products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA021877SandozOctober 28, 20051

Companies that list Arranon

The company named on the package (holder, repackager or distributor), as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, with its number of Arranon products.

Recalls

No recall linked to Arranon products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports.

Sources

  1. NDC Directory (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  2. Drugs@FDA (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  3. Drug labeling (SPL, openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  4. Drug recall enforcement reports (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 27, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  5. NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost) 2026 — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), data.medicaid.gov, list of November 4, 2026, retrieved November 7, 2026

Which names get a brand page: a name the NDC Directory lists for a medicine, held by one company (the FDA application holder, or the company named on most of its products), that is not just a description, and that is not the only product of its medicine.

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