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Prescribed Medications
| 1. | gemcitabine(Gemzar ) | ||
| 2. | capecitabine(Xeloda ) | ||
| 3. | oxaliplatin(Eloxatin ) | ||
| 4. | mitomycin(Mutamycin ) | ||
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GEMCITABINE (jem SIT a been) is a chemotherapy drug. This medicine is used to treat many types of cancer like breast cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, and ovarian cancer.
This medicine may be used for other purposes; ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have questions.
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Antimetabolite antineoplastic agent; a synthetic pyrimidine nucleoside.
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Gemcitabine is a drug that is used to treat advanced stages of pancreatic, lung, and other cancers. Its brand name is Gemzar.Gemcitabine is used to treat pancreatic cancer, particularly when it has metastasized, or spread to other parts of the bod...
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CAPECITABINE (ka pe SITE a been) is a chemotherapy drug. It slows the growth of cancer cells. This medicine is used to treat breast cancer, and also colon or rectal cancer.
This medicine may be used for other purposes; ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have questions.
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Antineoplastic agent; prodrug of fluorouracil (an antimetabolite).
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Capecitabine(brand name Xeloda) is a drug that interferes with the growth of cancer cells.Capecitabine is used to treat breast cancer and cancer of the colon and rectum(colorectal cancer) that have spread to other parts of the body(metastasized).C...
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OXALIPLATIN (ox AL i PLA tin) is a chemotherapy drug. It targets fast dividing cells, like cancer cells, and causes these cells to die. This medicine is used to treat cancers of the colon and rectum, and many other cancers.
This medicine may be used for other purposes; ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have questions.
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Antineoplastic agent; platinum-containing compound.
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Oxaliplatin is an investigational chemotherapy medicine used to treat certain types of cancer by destroying cancerous cells. Oxaliplatin is also known in other countries by its brand names Eloxatin and Transplatine.
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MITOMYCIN (mye toe MYE sin) is a chemotherapy drug. This medicine is used to treat cancer of the stomach and pancreas.
This medicine may be used for other purposes; ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have questions.
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Antineoplastic agent; an antibiotic produced by Streptomyces caespitosus .
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Mitomycin-C is also known as mitomycin and MMC. It is a medicine that kills cancer cells.Mitomycin-C may be used to fight a number of different cancers, including cancer of the stomach, colon, rectum, pancreas, breast, lung, uterus, cervix, bladde...
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