• This is a list of chemotherapeutic agents, also known as cytotoxic agents or cytostatic drugs, that are known to be of use in chemotherapy for cancer....
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    and CTx) is the type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (chemotherapeutic agents or alkylating agents) in a standard regimen...
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  • This is a list of antineoplastic agents used to treat cancer. Rossi, S, ed. (2013). Australian Medicines Handbook (2013 ed.). Adelaide: The Australian...
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  • disciplines of medicinal chemistry and drug design relating to chemotherapeutic agents in cancer. It is published by Bentham Science Publishers and the...
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    sulfonates Busulfan Platinum-based chemotherapeutic drugs (termed platinum analogues) act in a similar manner. These agents do not have an alkyl group, but...
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    Mitomycin C is a mitomycin that is used as a chemotherapeutic agent by virtue of its antitumour activity. It is given intravenously to treat upper gastro-intestinal...
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    Nitrogen mustard (category Blister agents)
    warfare agents, they were the first chemotherapeutic agents for treatment of cancer. Nitrogen mustards are nonspecific DNA alkylating agents. Nitrogen...
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    Antifungal (redirect from Antifungal agents)
    administering, for example, calcium channel blockers, immunosuppressants, chemotherapeutic drugs, benzodiazepines, tricyclic antidepressants, macrolides and SSRIs...
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    Intravenous high-dose ascorbate is being used as a chemotherapeutic and biological response modifying agent. It is undergoing clinical trials. It is sometimes...
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    This is a list of dual hormonal and cytostatic antineoplastic agents. Estramustine phosphate (Emcyt, Estracyt; Leo 299, NSC-89199, Ro 21-8837/001; estradiol...
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    "Technical aspects of preparing PEG-PLGA nanoparticles as carrier for chemotherapeutic agents by nanoprecipitation method". International Journal of Pharmaceutics...
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  • code L01 Antineoplastic agents is a therapeutic subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System, a system of alphanumeric codes developed...
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    onconephrology. Several chemotherapeutic agents, for example cisplatin, are associated with acute and chronic kidney injuries. Newer agents such as anti-vascular...
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    Sidney Farber (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
    father of modern chemotherapy for his work using folic acid antagonists to combat leukemia, which led to the development of other chemotherapeutic agents against...
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  • others. Some chemotherapeutic agents may not cause nausea and vomiting on their own, but may when used in combination with other agents. Regimens that...
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    of such atypia to progeny-cells further down the lineage of that cell type. Look up atypia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Irregularity List of biological...
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  • A chemo-protective agent is any drug that helps to reduce the side- effects of chemotherapy. These agents protect specific body parts from harmful anti-cancer...
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    Mesna (category Chemotherapeutic adjuvants)
    the chemotherapeutic agents cyclophosphamide and ifosfamide. Mesna concentrates in the bladder where acrolein accumulates after administration of chemotherapy...
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    Chlormethine (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
    Mustargen among others. It is the prototype of alkylating agents, a group of anticancer chemotherapeutic drugs. It works by binding to DNA, crosslinking...
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    Carmustine (category Alkylating antineoplastic agents)
    the N3 of cytosine. It is also used as part of a chemotherapeutic protocol in preparation for hematological stem cell transplantation, a type of bone marrow...
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    Gumport SL, Medrek TJ (August 1964). "Observations on the Use of Cancer Chemotherapeutic Agents in Patients With Mycosis Fungoides". Cancer. 17 (8): 1045–62...
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    and healthy cells, resulting in the damage of normal cells. Alkylating agents are a type of chemotherapeutic drug which keeps the cell from undergoing...
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    MV, Kailasam S, O'Sullivan JF, Gangadharam PR (April 1995). "Chemotherapeutic activity of clofazimine and its analogues against Mycobacterium tuberculosis...
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    (September 1985). "An evaluation of the effectiveness of azelaic acid as a depigmenting and chemotherapeutic agent". The Journal of Investigative Dermatology...
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    the proliferation of neoplasms. Antisickling agentsAgents used to prevent or reverse the pathological events leading to sickling of erythrocytes in sickle...
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    additionally, some local conditions may render them especially difficult. Chemotherapeutic agents, including mouthwashes, could have a key role as adjuncts to daily...
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    Carboplatin (category Platinum-based antineoplastic agents)
    PMID 16464006. Edelman MJ, Rupard EJ (2006). "TUMORS, MALIGNANT / Chemotherapeutic Agents". Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine. Academic Press. pp. 332–338. doi:10...
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    image guided tumor ablation chemotherapy, and bone-targeting chemotherapeutic agents such as bisphosphonates and denosumab. Orthopedic interventions...
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  • signaling are the proposed mechanism for many cardiotoxic chemotherapeutics. Regardless of the mechanism, clinical manifestations include heart failure...
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    among others, is a chemotherapeutic agent medication that is a topoisomerase inhibitor. It is a synthetic, water-soluble analog of the natural chemical...
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