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    cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (chemotherapeutic agents or alkylating agents) as part of a standardized chemotherapy regimen. Chemotherapy...
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    An alkylating antineoplastic agent is an alkylating agent used in cancer treatment that attaches an alkyl group (CnH2n+1) to DNA. The alkyl group is attached...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • Platinum-based antineoplastic drugs (informally called platins) are chemotherapeutic agents used to treat cancer. Their active moieties are coordination...
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  • 87 (2–3): 227–253. doi:10.1016/S0163-7258(00)00086-3. PMID 11008002. Antineoplastic+Antimetabolites at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject...
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    can also lead to sensory neuronopathies. Platinum-based antineoplastic chemotherapeutic agents are particularly toxic to the dorsal root ganglion. And...
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  • Cell-cycle nonspecific antineoplastic agents (CCNS) refer to a class of pharmaceuticals that act as antitumor agents at all or any phases of the cell...
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  • Antineoplastic resistance, often used interchangeably with chemotherapy resistance, is the resistance of neoplastic (cancerous) cells, or the ability of...
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    risk of miscarriage. For women who work with cytotoxic antineoplastic chemotherapeutic agents, there is a small increased risk of miscarriage. No increased...
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    Dibrospidium chloride (category Alkylating antineoplastic agents)
    anti-inflammatory and anti-neoplastic properties. It is an alkylating antineoplastic agent. Dibrospidium chloride and related compounds were developed in Russia...
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    Testifenon (category Antineoplastic drugs)
    synthetic anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS) and a cytostatic antineoplastic agent (i.e., chemotherapeutic) that was never marketed. It is an androgen ester – specifically...
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    daunomycin, doxorubicin, and thalidomide. DNA intercalators are used in chemotherapeutic treatment to inhibit DNA replication in rapidly growing cancer cells...
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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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    Although the mechanism underlying its antineoplastic activity has not been fully elucidated, it may be related to this agent's anti-adherence property. Taurolidine...
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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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    Mitomycin C (category Antineoplastic drugs)
    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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    P-glycoproteins, inhibiting the efflux pump and restoring sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents. Zosuqidar was initially characterized by Syntex Corporation, which...
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    Glufosfamide (category Alkylating antineoplastic agents)
    isophosphoramide mustard, D-19575 is an experimental cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agent for treatment of malignancies. Glufosfamide is, basically, a glycosidic...
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  • A hypomethylating agent (or demethylating agent) is a drug that inhibits DNA methylation: the modification of DNA nucleotides by addition of a methyl...
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    severely impaired haematopoiesis. Teniposide, when used with other chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment of ALL, results in severe bone marrow suppression...
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  • Duocarmycin (category Alkylating antineoplastic agents)
    of naturally occurring antitumour agents, such as duocarmycins, represent a new class of highly potent antineoplastic compounds. The work of Dale L. Boger...
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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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    Exatecan (category Antineoplastic and immunomodulating drug stubs)
    Exatecan is a drug which is a structural analog of camptothecin with antineoplastic activity. A derivative is used in Trastuzumab deruxtecan. Abou-Alfa...
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    Mitozantrone in Australia; trade name Novantrone) is an anthracenedione antineoplastic agent. Mitoxantrone is used to treat certain types of cancer, mostly acute...
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    Src inhibitor (category Antineoplastic drugs)
    position of the Src kinase in cells, Src inhibitors are potential antineoplastic agents for e.g. pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and stomach cancer Tirbanibulin...
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    doxorubicin-containing regimens are no exception. Doxorubicin and several chemotherapeutic drugs (including cyclophosphamide) can cause a loss of skin pigmentation...
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    Cytestrol acetate (category Antineoplastic drugs)
    acetate is a steroidal antiestrogen and a cytostatic antineoplastic agent (i.e., chemotherapeutic) which was developed for the treatment of breast cancer...
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    Cisplatin (category Platinum-based antineoplastic agents)
    cause harm to the developing fetus. Cisplatin is in the platinum-based antineoplastic family of medications. It works in part by binding to DNA and inhibiting...
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    Oxaliplatin (category Platinum-based antineoplastic agents)
    name Eloxatin among others, is a cancer medication (platinum-based antineoplastic class) used to treat colorectal cancer. It is given by injection into...
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