Medication and Pharmacology Terms

An experimental cancer compound whose abbreviation collides with a far better known immigration program, so context carries the whole meaning.

One of the older cytotoxic drugs, still holding its place in Hodgkin lymphoma long after newer agents displaced it in melanoma.

A drug that is used to treat myelodysplastic syndromes and is being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer.

A drug used to prevent blood clots from forming or to treat blood clots that have formed in patients with cancer or other conditions.

Dapsone is an antibacterial medication best established for treating leprosy and certain inflammatory skin conditions, also available in topical form for acne.

The active ingredient in a drug used to treat acute leukemias and some other types of cancer.

A drug used to treat acute leukemias and some other types of cancer.

One of the original red chemotherapies, still central to leukemia treatment and capped for life because the heart does not recover from it.

A drug used to treat acute leukemias and some other types of cancer.

A drug that is used to treat myelodysplastic syndromes and is being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer.

The body has no way to excrete surplus iron, so anyone transfused repeatedly needs a drug to carry it out for them.

A substance being studied in the prevention of cancer.

A drug displaced by its own breakdown product, which relieves no pain, lingers longer than the parent drug, and irritates the nervous system.

A drug that protects healthy tissues from the toxic effects of anticancer drugs.

A form of the anticancer drug cytarabine that is contained inside very tiny, fat-like particles.

A drug whose harms surfaced a generation later, in the children exposed before birth rather than in the women who were treated.

Molecules come in left and right handed forms, and here only the working half is supplied, which is why the milligram numbers look smaller.

The active ingredient in a drug used to treat severe side effects caused by certain anticancer drugs.

An anticancer drug that is a type of angiogenesis inhibitor.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.