Sign up with Facebook
- Health A to Z
- Healthy Living
Advertisement
Renal Cell Cancer Learning Center
Prescribed Medications
| 1. | sorafenib(Nexavar ) | ||
| 2. | fluorouracil(Adrucil ) | ||
| 3. | sunitinib(Sutent ) | ||
| 4. | gemcitabine(Gemzar ) | ||
| 5. | vinBLAStine(Velban ) | ||
| 6. | interferon alfa-2a(Roferon-A ) | ||
| 7. | aldesleukin(Proleukin ) | ||
| 8. | bevacizumab(Avastin ) | ||
| 9. | pazopanib(Votrient ) | ||
|
Top
|
|||
|
SORAFENIB (soe RAF e nib) is a chemotherapy drug. It is used to treat liver cancer and kidney cancer.
|
|
Antineoplastic agent; inhibitor of several serine/threonine and receptor tyrosine kinases.
|
|
FLUOROURACIL, 5-FU (flure oh YOOR a sil) is a chemotherapy drug. It slows the growth of cancer cells. This medicine is used to treat many types of cancer like breast cancer, colon or rectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, and stomach cancer.
|
|
Pyrimidine antagonist; antimetabolite; antineoplastic agent.
|
|
Pyrimidine antagonist; antimetabolite; antineoplastic agent.
|
|
Fluorouracil is a medication that kills cancer cells. It is also known as 5-FU or 5-fluourouracil, and as the brand name Adrucil.
|
|
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...
|
|
Antineoplastic agent; an inhibitor of multiple receptor tyrosine kinases.
|
|
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.
|
|
Antimetabolite antineoplastic agent; a synthetic pyrimidine nucleoside.
|
|
Gemcitabine is a drug that is used to treat advanced stages of pancreatic, lung, and other cancers. Its brand name is Gemzar.
|
|
VINBLASTINE (vin BLAS teen) is a chemotherapy drug. It slows the growth of cancer cells. This medicine is used to treat many types of cancer like breast cancer, testicular cancer, Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and sarcoma.
|
|
Antineoplastic agent; vinca alkaloid.
|
|
Vinblastine is a drug used to treat certain types of cancer. Vinblastine is available under the trade names Velban and Velsar, and may also be referred to as vinblastine sulfate. The drug was previously known as vincaleukoblastine or VLB.
|
|
INTERFERON ALFA-2a (in ter FEER on AL fa 2 a) (Roferon-A) helps the immune system fight viral infections such as chronic hepatitis C, and certain cancers like Philadelphia chromosome positive chronic myelogenous leukemia, and hairy cell leukemia.
|
|
ALDESLEUKIN, IL-2 (al des LOO kin) is a chemotherapy drug. It is usually used for advanced renal cell cancer or for advanced melanoma. It is sometimes used for other cancers.
|
|
Antineoplastic and immunomodulating agent; human interleukin-2 (IL-2) derivative and biosynthetic (recombinant DNA origin) cytokine (i.e., lymphokine).
|
|
Aldesleukin is interleukin, or specific kind of biological response modifier, that is used to treat metastatic renal cell carcinoma (a form of kidney cancer) and metastatic melanoma . Aldesleukin is also known as interleukin-2, IL-2 and the tradem...
|
|
EVEROLIMUS (eve ROE li mus) decreases the activity of your immune system. It is used to treat kidney cancer.
|
|
BEVACIZUMAB (be va SIZ yoo mab) is a chemotherapy drug. It targets a protein found in many cancer cell types, and halts cancer growth. This drug treats many cancers including non-small cell lung cancer, colon or rectal cancer, and breast cancer. I...
|
|
Antineoplastic agent; a recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody.
|
