Medication and Pharmacology Terms

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

A drug that acts like estrogen on some tissues but blocks the effect of estrogen on other tissues.

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

A drug used to relieve pain by blocking signals at nerve endings.

A drug used to treat tuberculosis.

The block on reuptake happens within hours, yet the change in mood takes weeks, and that gap is still not fully explained.

A drug used to treat depression.

Found by accident while a heart drug was being tested, it works only where nitric oxide is already being released.

A controller rather than a rescue treatment, and the one common asthma tablet carrying a formal warning about mood and behavior.

A drug used to treat prostate cancer that has spread.

Sirolimus is an immunosuppressant medication used to prevent organ transplant rejection by blocking a key pathway that drives immune cell growth.

A substance being studied in the treatment of certain multiple myelomas and other advanced cancers.

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

An anticancer drug that is also used in cancer prevention.

A drug used in the treatment of chronic pain.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.

A substance used in a type of radiation therapy called boron neutron capture therapy.

A drug that is a type of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug.