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Adcetris or brentuximab vedotin
Aldesleukin
Alemtuzumab MabCampath
Amsacrine Amsidine
An A to Z guide to cancer drugs - chemotherapy, immunotherapy etc.
Anastrozole, or Arimidex, and oestrogen
Asparaginase Crisantaspase
Bevacizumab, or Avastin
Bicalutamide (Casodex)
Binimetinib (Mektovi)
Bleomycin
BLP25 Stimuvax
Bortezomib Velcade
Breast Cancer Drugs
Busulphan, Myleran, Busilvex
Capecitabine, or Xeloda - uses, side-effects, warnings
Carboplatin, or Paraplatin
Carmustine (BCNU)
Cetuximab, Erbitux
Chlorambucil (Leukeran)
Cisplatin
Cladribine (2-CdA, Leustat)
Clodronate Bonefos
Clofarabine (Evoltra)
Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan)
Cyproterone Acetate (Cyprostat)
Cytarabine (Ara C.cytosine arabinoside)
Dacarbozine
Dactinomycin, or Actinomycin D
Dasatinib
Daunorubicin
Dexamethasone
Docetaxel, or Taxotere
Doxorubicin, or Adriamycin, and Doxil
Encorafenib (Braftovi)
Epirubicin, Ellence or Pharmorubicin
Erlotinib, Tarceva
Estramustine (Emcyt, Estracyte)
Etoposide, Eposin, Etopophos, Vepesid
Exemestane, or Aromasin - action and side-effects
Faslodex, or Fulvestrant
Filgrastim Neupogen, Neulasta
Fludarabine Fludara
Fluorouracil, 5-FU, 5 Fluorouracil
Flutamide (Chimax, Drogenil)
Gefinitib Iressa
Gemcitabine Gemzar
Goserelin, or Zoladex
Halaven or Eribulin
Herceptin for breast cancer
Hydroxycarbamide
Ibandronic acid Bondronat
Ibritumomab, Zevelin
Idarubicin, Zavedos
Ifosfomide
Imatinib Mesylate (Glivec or Gleevec)
Interferon boosting the body’s own defences
Irinotecan Campto
Jevtana or cabazitaxel
Lapatinib Tyverb
Learn about your cancer drugs.
Letrozole, Femara
Leuprorelin, or, Prostap
Lomustine CCNU
Lung Cancer Drugs
Megestrol Megace
Methotrexate
Mitomycin
Mitozantrone Novantrone
Paclitaxel, or Taxol
Pamidronate Aredia
PCV
Pemetrexed - Alimta
Pentostatin Nipent
Perjeta
Prednisolone
Provenge or sipuleucel-T
Raltitrexed Tomudex
Rituximab Mabthera
Sorafenib Nexavar
Stilboestrol DES, Diethylstilbestrol
Streptozocin Zanosar
Sunitinib Sutent
Tegafur with uracil Uftoral
Temozolomide, Temodal
Thalidomide
The Placebo effect and drugs
The Truth about Tamoxifen
Thiotepa Thioplex, Triethylenephosphoramide
Tioguanine Lanvis, 6-TG, 6-tioguanine, Tabloid
Topotecan Hycamptin
Toremifene Fareston
Trastuzumab, Herceptin
Treosulfan
Tretinoin Vesanoid, ATRA
Triptorelin (Decapeptyl SR, Gonapeptyl Depot)
Vincristine Oncovin
Vinorelbine (Navelbine)
Xalkori or crizotinib
Yervoy or Ipilimumab
Zactima or Vandetanib
Zoledronate Zometa zoledronic acid
Zytiga or abiraterone
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Adcetris or brentuximab vedotin
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Brentuximab Vedotin or Adcetris which is a chemotherapy drug that belongs in the classification of monoclonal antibody an ...
Aldesleukin
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Aldesleukin a biological therapy (sometimes known as immunotherapy), in which substances that occur naturally in the body are ma ...
Alemtuzumab MabCampath
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Alemtuzumab (trade name: MabCampath, Lemtrada, Campath) a biological therapy generally used to treat chronic  ...
Amsacrine Amsidine
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Amsacrine (Amsidine) a chemotherapy drug used to treat leukaemia. It works by blocking an enzyme called topoisomerase 2. When this en ...
An A to Z guide to cancer drugs - chemotherapy, immunotherapy etc.
Below are listed, from A-Z, the top 150 or so cancer drugs used currently in the UK, each review written in a patient-friendly manner. Your anti-cancer drug programme can involve several ...
Anastrozole, or Arimidex, and oestrogen
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Anastrozole (Arimidex) and Oestrogen which is an aromatase inhibitor (AI), a cancer drug licensed for use with post-me ...
Asparaginase Crisantaspase
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Asparaginase (Crisantaspase) which is used on its own or with other chemotherapy drugs to treat acute lymphocytic leukaemia (ALL) and work ...
Bevacizumab, or Avastin
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Bevacizumab (commonly called Avastin) which is used to treat advanced bowel, breast, kidney, brain and non-small cell lung cancer; it ...
Bicalutamide (Casodex)
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Bicalutamide (Casodex) which is an anti-androgen which works by attaching itself to proteins (receptors) on the surface of cancer cells to ...
Binimetinib (Mektovi)
This patient-friendly article is about the anti-cancer drug, Binimetinib, which is approved to be used with encorafenib to treat Melanoma that cannot be removed by surgery or has spread to other p ...
Bleomycin
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Bleomycin which is used to treat many types of cancer, including testicular cancer, non Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Hodgkin’s lymphoma ...
BLP25 Stimuvax
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, BLP25 (Stimuvax) which is a new drug currently in Phase III trials. It was originally developed by scientists at Cancer Research UK and fu ...
Bortezomib Velcade
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Bortezomib (Velcade) which is one of a new class of drugs called proteasome Inhibitors (PIs). Proteasomes are found within all cells and t ...
Breast Cancer Drugs
This Breast Cancer Drugs review was first published in 2004. As such it could be described as a little out of date. We have left it up on site because we felt that any woman (or man) about to u ...
Busulphan, Myleran, Busilvex
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Busulphan (Myleran, Busilvex) which is a chemotherapy drug most often given as low dose treatment for a long time to treat chronic myeloid ...
Capecitabine, or Xeloda - uses, side-effects, warnings
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Capecitabine (Xeloda), which is a treatment for women with advanced breast cancer who have not responded well to chemotherapy with ot ...
Carboplatin, or Paraplatin
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Carboplatin or Paraplatin which was approved in the 1970s for use with ovarian cancer and lung cancer, although, because of its ...
Carmustine (BCNU)
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Carmustine (BCNU) which is used for brain tumours, multiple myeloma, Hodgkins disease, non-Hodgkins lymphomas, melanoma, lung cancer, colo ...
Cetuximab, Erbitux
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Cetuximab (Erbitux), which is an epidermal growth factor inhibitor (EGFR inhibitor) used to treat metastatic cancer of the colon and ...
Chlorambucil (Leukeran)
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Chlorambucil (Leukeran) which is a chemotherapy drug that is used to treat CLL (chronic lymphocytic leukaemia), Hodgkin’s and non-Ho ...
Cisplatin
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Cisplatin which is used for stomach, oesophagael, ovarian, testicular, melanoma, lung and bladder cancers and is similar in many respects ...
Cladribine (2-CdA, Leustat)
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Cladribine (2-CdA, Leustat) which is a chemotherapy drug that is given mainly as a treatment for hairy cell leukaemia and CLL (chroni ...
Clodronate Bonefos
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Clodronate (Bonefos) which is a biphosphonate, a type of drug commonly used to treat osteoporosis (bone thinning), and can sometimes prote ...
Clofarabine (Evoltra)
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Clofarabine (Evoltra) which is used in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) in children where there has been a recurrence. ...
Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan)
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan) which is a chemotherapy drug most commonly used to treat breast cancer but also lymphomas, CLL and cancer ...
Cyproterone Acetate (Cyprostat)
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Cyproterone Acetate (Cyprostat) which is a steroidal anti-androgen a hormone treatment used for prostate cancer. It prevents testosterone ...
Cytarabine (Ara C.cytosine arabinoside)
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Cytarabine (Ara C.cytosine arabinoside) which is mostly used for the treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), non-Hodgkin’s ...
Dacarbozine
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Dacarbozine which is most commonly used with Hodgkin’s lymphoma and melanoma. A powder is used to make a colourless or slightly yell ...
Dactinomycin, or Actinomycin D
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Dactinomycin (or Actinomycin D) is a chemotherapy agent used principally to treat sarcomas, Wilm’s tumour, germ cell ...
Dasatinib
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Dasatinib which is used in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CLL). Also, research published in the NCI Cancer Bulletin in 2007 r ...
Daunorubicin
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Daunorubicin which is an anti-tumour antibiotic a chemotherapy drug from the anthracyline family generally used to treat acute leukaemias ...
Dexamethasone
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Dexamethasone which is a steroid tablet generally given in doses of 0.5mgs upwards. It is an anti-inflammatory and an immuno-suppressant. ...
Docetaxel, or Taxotere
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Docetaxel, brand name Taxotere amongst others, a taxane from the European yew tree bark and needles; it attacks tubulin in ...
Doxorubicin, or Adriamycin, and Doxil
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Doxorubicin (Adriamycin) and Doxil widely used for a number of cancers including breast cancer, bladder cancer, multiple myeloma ...
Encorafenib (Braftovi)
This patient-friendly review is about the anti-cancer drug Encorafenib (Braftovi); it is a kinase inhibitor currently used for Colorectal cancer and Melanoma. Encorafenib is taken as ...
Epirubicin, Ellence or Pharmorubicin
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Epirubicin, Ellence or Pharmorubicin marketed by Pfizer in the USA under the brand name Ellence, and Epirubicin or Pharmorubicin ...
Erlotinib, Tarceva
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Erlotinib (Tarceva) is used with advanced cases of non-small cell lung cancer. The drug is a small molecule tyrosine-kinase inhibitor ...
Estramustine (Emcyt, Estracyte)
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Estramustine (Emcyt, Estracyte) which is combination of a chemotherapy agent, nornitrogen mustard, and an oestrogen, so it has the advanta ...
Etoposide, Eposin, Etopophos, Vepesid
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Etoposide (also called Eposin, Etopophos, Vepesid), which is a chemotherapy drug made from the mandrake plant. It is used to treat many di ...
Exemestane, or Aromasin - action and side-effects
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Exemestane (Aromasin) an aromatase inhibitor (AI), a cancer drug licensed for use in the treatment of advanced breast cancer, stimulated b ...
Faslodex, or Fulvestrant
Filgrastim Neupogen, Neulasta
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Filgrastim (Neupogen, Neulasta) which is used to treat neutropenia (a low number of white blood cells or neutrophils) often caused by chem ...
Fludarabine Fludara
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Fludarabine (Fludara) which is a type of chemotherapy used in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), low grade non-Hodgkin& ...
Fluorouracil, 5-FU, 5 Fluorouracil
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) which is a chemotherapy agent first approved by the FDA in 1956 and is usually used as part of a package o ...
Flutamide (Chimax, Drogenil)
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Flutamide (Chimax, Drogenil) which is used to treat prostate cancer. It stops testosterone getting to the receptors on the surface of the ...
Gefinitib Iressa
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Gefinitib (Iressa) which is not yet licensed for use in the UK, but is a possible treatment for a number of different types of cancer ...
Gemcitabine Gemzar
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Gemcitabine (Gemzar) which is a general use drug used for breast, pancreatic, lung and bladder cancer. It is a white powder which is then ...
Goserelin, or Zoladex
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Goserelin (Zoladex) which is a GnRH analogue, meaning it is a synthetic equivalent. GnRH stands for gonadotrophin-releasing hormone. ...
Halaven or Eribulin
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Halaven or Eribulin New 'biologic' drug made by Eisai. This targets breast cancer and costs roughly 3,800 pounds or ...
Herceptin for breast cancer
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Herceptin is no ’wonder’ drug. Herceptin, or Trastuzumab, was launched in a blaze of glory with extensive PR criticising and b ...
Hydroxycarbamide
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Hydroxycarbamide which is a chemotherapy drug called an anti-metabolite. It is used to treat chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), acute myeloi ...
Ibandronic acid Bondronat
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Ibandronic acid Bondronat which is most commonly used to treat secondary breast cancer that has spread to the bones. It is a bisphonphonat ...
Ibritumomab, Zevelin
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Ibritumomab (Zevelin) which is used in the treatment of follicular lymphoma (a type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It is a monoclonal an ...
Idarubicin, Zavedos
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Idarubicin (Zavedos) which is a cytotoxic anthracycline antibiotic used to treat acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia, acute lymphoblastic leuk ...
Ifosfomide
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Ifosfomide which is an alkylating agent a type of chemotherapy used to treat many different types of cancer, including testicular, br ...
Imatinib Mesylate (Glivec or Gleevec)
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Imatinib Mesylate (Glivec or Gleevec) which is taken in tablet form and used with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). It inhibits the over-ex ...
Interferon boosting the body’s own defences
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Interferon - stimulating the body’s own defences. This chemotherapy and cancer drugs article is about Interferon - a biological ther ...
Irinotecan Campto
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Irinotecan (Campto) which is used to treat bowel cancer, generally given in combination with other chemotherapy drugs 5FU and Leucovorin ( ...
Jevtana or cabazitaxel
New ’biologic’ drug made by Sanofi. This targets prostate cancer that has worsened after treatment with other anti-cancer treatments including docetaxol and costs roughly 3,750 pounds ...
Lapatinib Tyverb
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Lapatinib (Tyverb) which is a biological therapy for treatment of advanced breast cancer, sometimes used with capecitabine or trastuzumab ...
Learn about your cancer drugs.
On the left you will see a number of articles about cancer drugs.. Some are about the cancer drugs associated with a specific cancer.So, you will see articles about Breast Cancer Drugs, ...
Letrozole, Femara
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Letrozole (Femara) which was approved by the FDA in 1997 to help treat advanced breast cancer in post-menopausal women whose breast cancer ...
Leuprorelin, or, Prostap
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Leuprorelin (also called Prostap, leuprolide or Lutrate) which is a type of hormone therapy used in the treatment of prostate ca ...
Lomustine CCNU
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Lomustine (CCNU) which is used for brain tumours, Hodgkin’s disease and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Like Carmustine it is an alkyl ...
Lung Cancer Drugs
This review of lung cancer drugs and lung cancer treatment was prepared a couple of years ago. There is no doubt that life has moved on, but much of this article is still relevant, so we have left ...
Megestrol Megace
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Megestrol (Megace) which is used to treat advanced breast cancer, typically in women who do not respond well, or become resistant, to Tamo ...
Methotrexate
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Methotrexate which is a general chemotherapy drug used for many cancers which can be given intravenously, via injection or as pills. Folin ...
Mitomycin
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Mitomycin which is to treat used for breast, bladder, stomach, pancreatic, lung, oesophagael cancers. It is actually an antibiotic isolate ...
Mitozantrone Novantrone
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Mitozantrone (Novantrone) which works similarly to Adriamycin, but has much less cardio-toxicity. It is therefore good for use with fraile ...
Paclitaxel, or Taxol
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Paclitaxel or, Taxol a treatment for non-small cell lung cancer, head and neck cancer, melanoma, ovarian and breast cancer, whic ...
Pamidronate Aredia
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Pamidronate Aredia which is a nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate. Such drugs are used with breast cancer patients who are at risk of osteo ...
PCV
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, PCV is a triple drug treatment for brain tumours and consists of Procarbazine, Carmustine and Vincristine. The following information ...
Pemetrexed - Alimta
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Pemetrexed (Alimta) is used in combination with cisplatin in the treatment of pleural mesothelioma and non-squamous non-small ce ...
Pentostatin Nipent
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Pentostatin (Nipent) which is used in the treatment of leukaemia. The drug is given as an intravenous injection. It is one of a group of c ...
Perjeta
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Perjeta or Pertuzumab approved by the FDA in 2012 as a cancer drug in the treatment of HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer. Pha ...
Prednisolone
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Prednisolone which is a corticosteroid, which is similar to a natural hormone produced by the adrenal glands which controls the inflammato ...
Provenge or sipuleucel-T
New ’biologic’ drug made by Dendreon. This targets prostate cancer and costs roughly 18,000 pounds or $27,000 US a month. The mean increased survival time in research was 4 months (I ...
Raltitrexed Tomudex
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Raltitrexed (Tomudex) which is a chemotherapy drug used to treat bowel cancer. It is one of a group of drugs known as the anti-metabolites ...
Rituximab Mabthera
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Rituximab (Mabthera) which is used in the treatment of low grade lymphoma and high grade B cell lymphoma. It is a biological therapy, ...
Sorafenib Nexavar
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Sorafenib (Nexavar) which is a treatment for advanced kidney cancer. It is a type of biological therapy, called a protein tyrosine k ...
Stilboestrol DES, Diethylstilbestrol
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Stilboestrol (DES, Diethylstilbestrol) which is a synthetic oestrogen, given in tablet form, for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer ...
Streptozocin Zanosar
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Streptozocin (Zanosar) which is a chemotherapy drug used to treat pancreatic cancer. It is not licensed in the UK but is u ...
Sunitinib Sutent
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Sunitinib (Sutent) which is used to treat advanced kidney cancer and a rare kind of cancer called a gastrointestinal stromal tumour ( ...
Tegafur with uracil Uftoral
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Tegafur with uracil (Uftoral) which is a chemotherapy drug most often used to treat bowel cancer. It is a combination of two drugs - ...
Temozolomide, Temodal
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Temozolomide (Temodal) which is a treatment for brain tumours (or, brain cancer). Temozolomide has also been used for melanoma as an ...
Thalidomide
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Thalidomide which became infamous as a medicine used in the late 1950s as a sleeping pill and to combat nausea some women experience in pr ...
The Placebo effect and drugs
The Placebo effect and DrugsThe Clinical Trial is the Gold Standard in medical discipline. You take a group of people and give them a drug, and an identical group of people and give them the same ...
The Truth about Tamoxifen
This patient-friendly article is about the drug, Tamoxifen, a long-standing hormone therapy, used to block and modify cellular receptor sites from the action of ooestradiol. It is u ...
Thiotepa Thioplex, Triethylenephosphoramide
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Thiotepa (Thioplex, Triethylenephosphoramide) which is a chemotherapy drug known as an alkylating agent and used primarily for bladde ...
Tioguanine Lanvis, 6-TG, 6-tioguanine, Tabloid
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Tioguanine Lanvis, 6-TG, 6-tioguanine, Tabloid which is a chemotherapy drug used for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) or acute lymphobla ...
Topotecan Hycamptin
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Topotecan (Hycamptin) which is a chemotherapy drug primarily used to treat ovarian cancer, but also small cell lung cancer and acute myelo ...
Toremifene Fareston
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Toremifene (Fareston) which is similar to Tamoxjfen in that it is an anti-oestrogen, which blocks the oestrogen receptor and helps slow th ...
Trastuzumab, Herceptin
This is a patient friendly review of the cancer drug Herceptin (or, Trastuzumab), commonly used for HER2 positive breast cancer, often in conjuction with Perjeta (or Pertuzumab), even by injection ...
Treosulfan
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Treosulfan which is most commonly used to treat ovarian cancer but is sometimes used in high doses for leukaemia before bone marrow o ...
Tretinoin Vesanoid, ATRA
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Tretinoin (Vesanoid, ATRA) which is not a chemotherapy drug but is often used with chemo in promyelocytic leukaemia (a type of AML).& ...
Triptorelin (Decapeptyl SR, Gonapeptyl Depot)
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Triptorelin (Decapeptyl SR, Gonapeptyl Depot) which is a hormone therapy used with advanced prostate cancer and works by lowering the amou ...
Vincristine Oncovin
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Vincristine (Oncovin) which is used for the treatment of leukaemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma. It is administered intravenously and as ...
Vinorelbine (Navelbine)
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Vinorelbine (Navelbine) which is used to treat non-small cell lung cancer and breast cancer. It may also be used to treat Ovarian cancer a ...
Xalkori or crizotinib
New ’biologic’ drug made by Pfizer. This targets lung cancer and costs roughly 6,800 pounds or $11,000 US a month. The mean increased survival time in research was 6 months. I ...
Yervoy or Ipilimumab
New ’biologic’ drug made by Bristol Myers Squibb. This targets melanoma in patients aged above 12 years old. It costs a whopping 24,000 pounds or $36,000 US a month. The mean increas ...
Zactima or Vandetanib
New ’biologic’ drug made by AstraZeneca. It is an oral targeted therapy that targets VEGF and EGFR pathways. It is being hailed as a treatment for non-small cell lung cancer and costs ...
Zoledronate Zometa zoledronic acid
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Zoledronate (Zometa zoledronic acid) which is a bisphosphonate used for osteoporosis and bone metastases in breast and lung cancers and mu ...
Zytiga or abiraterone
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Abiraterone acetate trade name Zytiga. It was approved by the FDA since 2011 as a medication involved in treating prostate cancer. ...
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