McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. U·ni·ted States A·dopt·ed Names (USAN)(yū-nī'tĕd stāts ă-dop'tĕd nāmz) Designation for nonproprietary names (for drugs) adopted by the USAN Council in cooperation with the manufac...
Role of the targeted drugs in reducing the burden of cancer; Specific and less toxic way of treating cancer.RoteaJr.WilliamSaadEverardoD.EBSCO_AspAmerican Journal of Health System PharmacyRotea WJ,Saad ED.Targeted drugs in oncology:new names,new mechanism,new paradigm[J].Am J Health-Syst ...
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) for the first time announced its cancer Advance of the Year: the transformation of treatment for the most common form of adult leukemia. Until now, many patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) have had few effective treatment options. Four...
Oncologyenzymes are a class of drugs used to treat acute lymphoblasticleukemia(a type of cancer of the blood andbone marrow), lymphoblasticlymphoma(cancer of immature lymphocytes, cells of theimmune systemcalled lymphoblasts),gout(a condition caused by an abnormal accumulation ofuric acidin the bloo...
Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies - regulations, taxes, and prohibitions - designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible......
Thymidine phosphorylase inhibitors are a class of drugs used to treat colon (large intestine) or rectal cancer, gastric cancer, and esophageal cancer that has spread to other parts of the body in people who have already been treated with other chemothera
This medication is a mixture of two drugs: a thiazide “water pill”/diuretic and an angiotensin receptor blocker. Blood vessels enlarge and relax when using Hyzaar. By increasing the volume of urine produced, the thiazide diuretic reduces the amount of extra water and salt in your body....
Sensory neurotoxicity (sNT) is the dose-limiting toxicity of oxaliplatin, the integral component of the FOLFOX regimen which has emerged as standard therapy in colorectal cancer. Variations in genes potentially involved in the detoxifica... A Grothey,HL Mcleod,EM Green,... - 《Journal of Clinic...
Correction: Antibody-Drug Conjugates for the Treatment of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Target and Linker-Drug Selection In this article (Cancer Res 2009;69:2358-64), which was published in the March 15, 2009 issue of Cancer Research (1), Dion S. Slaga should have been includ... C Res - ...
(HDAC) inhibitors are a class of drugs used to treatmultiple myeloma(a type of cancer of thebone marrow), relapsed orrefractoryperipheral T-celllymphoma(a form of cancer that begins in certain cells of theimmune system), andcutaneousT-cell lymphoma (a rare type of cancer that begins in ...