Medication and Pharmacology Terms

A drug that may increase the effectiveness of radiation therapy.

A gel injection that shuts down testosterone production for months at a time, after first pushing the level higher.

Eltrombopag is a medication that stimulates platelet production in the bone marrow to treat certain chronic low platelet conditions.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.

A substance that is being studied as an anticancer and antiangiogenesis drug.

A drug used together with other drugs to prevent and control nausea and vomiting caused by cancer treatment.

Anything that brings on vomiting, whether given deliberately, produced by a disease, or arriving as a side effect.

An anticancer drug that belongs to the family of drugs called antimetabolites.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.

A drug that blocks the hormone endothelin and may prevent prostate cancer from spreading to the bones.

An anticancer drug that increases the effectiveness of fluorouracil.

A substance being studied in the treatment of certain types of cancer, including non-Hodgkin lymphoma, breast, colon, lung, ovarian, and prostate.

An injection of an anesthetic drug into the space between the wall of the spinal canal and the covering of the spinal cord.

A daily tablet that switches off a growth signal on the cancer cell surface, working best where one specific mutation is present.

The mirror image half of an older drug, isolated because that half carries nearly all of the activity while its twin adds little.

Esomeprazole is a proton pump inhibitor that reduces stomach acid production to treat acid reflux and ulcer related conditions.

A combination of the hormone estradiol (an estrogen) and nitrogen mustard (an anticancer drug).

A loose label stretched across two unrelated drug strategies: occupying the receptor, or shutting off the supply of the hormone upstream.

A drug that belongs to the family of drugs called bisphosphonates.

An extract is a concentrated preparation drawn from a plant, animal, or microorganism, used either as a medication itself or as an ingredient within one.