Monday, February 13, 2012
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Kidney Cancer Learning Center

Prescribed Medications
—Treatment with anticancer drugs.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
SORAFENIB (soe RAF e nib) is a chemotherapy drug. It is used to treat liver cancer and kidney cancer.
Source:GOLD
Antineoplastic agent; inhibitor of several serine/threonine and receptor tyrosine kinases.
Source:AHFS
SUNITINIB (soo NI ti nib) is a chemotherapy drug. It targets a specific protein within cancer cells and stops the cancer cells from growing. It is used to treat specific digestive tract tumors called GISTs. It is also used to treat advanced kidney...
Source:GOLD
Antineoplastic agent; an inhibitor of multiple receptor tyrosine kinases.
Source:AHFS
TEMSIROLIMUS (TEM sir OH li mus) is a drug that alters immune system response in the body. It is used to treat renal cell cancer.
Source:GOLD
Antineoplastic agent; inhibitor of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) kinase.
Source:AHFS
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