Medication and Pharmacology Terms

The leakage of blood, lymph, or other fluid, such as an anticancer drug, from a blood vessel or tube into the tissue around it.

A drug used to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

A substance being studied in the prevention of palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia (pain, swelling, numbness, tingling, or redness of the palms of the hands or soles of the feet) in breast cancer…

A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer.

Built to stay out of the brain, it blunts allergy symptoms without the sedation that older antihistamines are known for.

A drug used to increase numbers of white blood cells in patients who are receiving chemotherapy.

An antibiotic/antifungal drug used to treat infection.

A substance being studied in the treatment of several types of cancer.

A rhythm-control drug rather than a rate-control one, limited to hearts without structural disease because of a documented safety concern.

A drug that increases the number of immune cells and may stimulate the immune system to kill cancer cells.

A chemotherapy drug that impersonates a DNA building block, used mainly against slow-growing blood cancers and before transplant.

Salt handling rather than swelling: this is the steroid given for what the kidney does with sodium, and it rarely works alone.

Fluoroquinolones are broad spectrum antibiotics that stop bacteria from replicating their DNA, used against a range of respiratory and urinary infections.

It stays in the body far longer than the rest of its class, which softens the effect of a missed dose and of stopping.

Fluphenazine is a first generation antipsychotic medication used mainly to manage schizophrenia and other conditions involving psychosis.

Alone among the SSRIs sold in the United States, it carries no approval for depression, its labeled uses being obsessive-compulsive and social anxiety disorder.

A three-drug infusion schedule for advanced bowel cancer, its name assembled from the folinic acid and irinotecan it contains.

Folinic acid is a form of folate used to counteract the toxic effects of certain drugs that block folic acid activity in cells.

Fondaparinux is a synthetic anticoagulant used to prevent and treat blood clots by blocking a specific clotting factor.

A form that must be filed by an investigator running a clinical trial to study a new drug or agent.