Generic drug: trabectedin Brand name: Yondelis What is Yondelis (trabectedin), and how does it work? Yondelis (trabectedin) is a prescription medicine used to treat people with liposarcoma (cancer of the fat cells) or leiomyosarcoma (cancer of smooth muscle tissue) that: cannot be treated with surgery or has spread to other areas of the body, and …
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Generic drug: bendamustine hydrochloride Brand name: Belrapzo What is Belrapzo (bendamustine hydrochloride), and how does it work? Belrapzo (bendamustine hydrochloride) injection is an alkylating drug indicated for treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), and indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) that has progressed during or within six months of treatment with rituximab or a rituximab-containing regimen. What are the …
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Generic drug: bendamustine hydrochloride Brand name: Bendeka What is Bendeka (bendamustine hydrochloride), and how does it work? Bendeka (bendamustine hydrochloride) Injection is an alkylating drug indicated for treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), and indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) that has progressed during or within six months of treatment with rituximab or a rituximab-containing regimen. What are the …
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Most GIST symptoms are secondary to GI blockage caused by large GISTs or bleeding from the tumor. A gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is a rare type of tumor that develops in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. GISTs develop in a specialized type of cell in the GI tract, known as interstitial cells of Cajal (ICCs), or their precursor stem cells which …
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Generic drug: tivozanib Brand name: Fotivda What is Fotivda (tivozanib), and how does it work? Fotivda (tivozanib) is a prescription medicine used to treat adults with advanced kidney cancer (advanced renal cell carcinoma or RCC) that has been treated with 2 or more prior medicines and has come back or did not respond to treatment. It is not known if …
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Generic drug: procarbazine hydrochloride Brand name: Matulane What is Matulane (procarbazine hydrochloride), and how does it work? Matulane (procarbazine hydrochloride) Capsules is a cancer medication that is given with other cancer medications to treat Hodgkin's Disease (a type of blood cancer). What are the side effects of Matulane? WARNING It is recommended that Matulane be given only by or under …
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Generic drug: levoleucovorin Brand name: Fusilev What is Fusilev (levoleucovorin), and how does it work? Fusilev (levoleucovorin) is a derivative of folic acid indicated for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer and bone cancer (after methotrexate therapy). What are the side effects of Fusilev? Common side effects of Fusilev include: nausea vomiting diarrhea stomach pain upset stomach numbness or tingling …
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Generic drug: pegfilgrastim Brand name: Neulasta What is Neulasta (pegfilgrastim), and how does it work? Neulasta (pegfilgrastim) is a colony-stimulating factor, a man-made form of a protein that stimulates the growth of white blood cells, used to decrease the incidence of infection, by treating neutropenia, a lack of certain white blood cells caused by receiving cancer chemotherapy. What are the …
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Generic drug: chlorambucil Brand name: Leukeran What is Leukeran (chlorambucil), and how does it work? Leukeran (chlorambucil) is a prescription medicine used to treat the symptoms of Chronic Lymphatic (Lymphocytic) Leukemia and Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Leukeran may be used alone or with other medications. Leukeran belongs to a class of drugs called Antineoplastics, Alkylating. It is not known if Leukeran is …
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Generic drug: enasidenib Brand name: Idhifa What is Idhifa (enasidenib), and how does it work? Idhifa (enasidenib) is a prescription medicine used to treat people with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with an isocitrate dehydrogenase-2 (IDH2) mutation whose disease has come back or has not improved after previous treatment(s). It is not known if Idhifa is safe and effective in children. …
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