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Gemcitabine, sold under the brand name Gemzar, among others, [1] is a chemotherapy medication used to treat cancers. [2] It is used to treat testicular cancer , [ 3 ] breast cancer , ovarian cancer , non-small cell lung cancer , pancreatic cancer , and bladder cancer .
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.
A chemotherapy regimen is a regimen for chemotherapy, defining the drugs to be used, their dosage, the frequency and duration of treatments, and other considerations.In modern oncology, many regimens combine several chemotherapy drugs in combination chemotherapy.
Chemotherapy (often abbreviated chemo, sometimes CTX 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.
gemcitabine: Gemzar Ovarian cancer, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), metastatic breast cancer (MBC), and pancreatic cancer Eli Lilly & Co. $1,719.8 $1,592.4 $1,408.1 $1,334.5 $1,214.4 $1,021.7 $875 $723 $559.3 bevacizumab: Avastin Metastatic colorectal cancer, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), renal cell carcinoma, HER2-negative breast cancer
Decitabine (i.e., 5-aza-2′-deoxycytidine), sold under the brand name Dacogen among others, acts as a nucleic acid synthesis inhibitor. [4] It is a medication for the treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes, a class of conditions where certain blood cells are dysfunctional, and for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). [5]
GemOx or GEMOX is an acronym for one of the chemotherapy regimens used in the treatment of relapsed or primary refractory non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and Hodgkin's lymphoma.. When combined with Rituximab it is called R-GemOx, R-GEMOX or GemOx-R, GEMOX-R.
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