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Non-small cell lung cancer, oesophageal cancer, uterine cervical cancer, head and neck cancer and urothelial cancer: Nephrotoxicity, myelosuppression and nausea and vomiting (30-90%). Oxaliplatin: IV: Reacts with DNA, inducing apoptosis, non-cell cycle specific. Colorectal cancer, oesophageal cancer and gastric cancer
ALK inhibitors are anti-cancer drugs that act on tumours with variations of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) such as an EML4-ALK translocation. [1] They fall under the category of tyrosine kinase inhibitors , which work by inhibiting proteins involved in the abnormal growth of tumour cells.
GENEVA/ZURICH (Reuters) - The world's master list of recommended medicines got an update on Tuesday when the World Health Organization (WHO) published a biennial revision, adding 28 drugs ...
Acrylonitrile increases cancer in high dose tests in male and female rats and mice [22] and induces apoptosis in human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells. [ 23 ] It evaporates quickly at room temperature (20 °C) to reach dangerous concentrations; skin irritation , respiratory irritation, and eye irritation are the immediate effects of this ...
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.This list is organized by type of agent, although the subsections are not necessarily definitive and are subject to revision.
In one of the studies, involving 570 adults with acute myeloid leukaemia (a blood cancer) or myelodysplastic syndromes (conditions in which large numbers of abnormal blood cells are produced), 64% of patients given treosulfan (with fludarabine) had a successful transplant and were alive and disease-free after 2 years, compared with 51% of ...
Description of the list of classifications Archived 2013-07-28 at the Wayback Machine, IARC. List of Classifications (latest version) List of classifications by cancer site Archived 2012-09-20 at the Wayback Machine (last updated on 5 November 2015)
Description of the list of classifications Archived 2013-07-28 at the Wayback Machine, IARC. List of Classifications (latest version) List of Classifications by cancer sites with sufficient or limited evidence in humans, Volumes 1 to 124 (Last update: 8 July 2019) Agents Classified by the IARC Monographs, Volumes 1–123 (Last update: 25 March ...