Nelarabine
Nelarabine | |
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Term | Nelarabine |
Short definition | nelarabine - (pronounced) (neh-LAR-uh-been) A drug used to treat adults and children 1 year and older with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma. It is used in patients whose cancer has not gotten better or has come back (came back) after treatment with other anticancer medicines. |
Type | Cancer terms |
Specialty | Oncology |
Language | English |
Source | NCI |
Comments |
nelarabine - (pronounced) (neh-LAR-uh-been) A drug used to treat adults and children 1 year and older with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma. It is used in patients whose cancer has not gotten better or has come back (came back) after treatment with other anticancer medicines. Nelarabine stops DNA production in cells and can kill cancer cells. It's a type of antimetabolite. Also called 506U78 and Arranon
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