Medication and Pharmacology Terms

A drug that is used to treat hypercalcemia (too much calcium in the blood) and cancer that has spread to the bones.

A laboratory-made antibody that plugs a growth switch on tumor cells, but only helps when one particular gene is unaltered.

An opium poppy compound that relaxes blood vessels and hollow organs without relieving pain or causing addiction.

A substance being studied in the treatment of diarrhea caused by infection with Clostridium difficile (a type of bacteria that can grow without oxygen) in cancer patients.

A dopamine-mimicking tablet best known for shrinking pituitary tumors that flood the body with the milk hormone.

The salt form of an SSRI, notable for its strength against anxiety and for a difficult stop when it is withdrawn.

Built to reach a receptor its predecessor barely touches, at the cost of pushing blood sugar up in a large share of users.

It clears the body faster than most of its class, which is why missed doses and abrupt stops are felt more sharply.

The hydrochloride salt of a small molecule inhibitor of multiple protein tyrosine kinases with potential antineoplastic activity.

An orally available pyridopyrimidine-derived cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitor with potential antineoplastic activity.

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

A single injection after chemotherapy that pushes the marrow to make infection-fighting white cells, replacing a run of daily shots.

It blocks the receptor rather than the hormone, so the hormone level in blood rises even as its effects on the body fall away.

A substance being studied in the treatment of melanoma, liver cancer, and other types of cancer.

A substance being studied in the prevention of cancer.

A molecule that grips copper and other metals tightly enough to drag them out of the body in urine.

Its beta-lactam ring is both the reason penicillin works and the target bacteria disable when they become resistant.

A drug used to treat infections caused by certain microorganisms.

A drug used to treat infections caused by certain microorganisms.

An oral drug for long-term bladder pain, thought to patch the protective coating that keeps urine off the bladder wall.