Medical term:

Adriamycin


Adriamycin

 [a″dre-ah-mi´sin]
trademark for preparations of doxorubicin, an antineoplastic antibiotic.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

dox·o·ru·bi·cin

(doks'ō-rū'bi-sin),
An antineoplastic antibiotic isolated from Streptomyces peucetius; also used in cytogenetics to produce Q-type chromosome bands.
Synonym(s): adriamycin
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Adriamycin

(ā′drē-ə-mī′sən)
A trademark for the drug doxorubicin.
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Adriamycin

An anthracycline antibiotic with antineoplastic activity, which is used to treat haematologic malignancies, especially leukaemias, but also carcinomas and solid tumours (for which it is not particularly effective); its efficacy is hampered by cardiotoxicity that increases as the cumulative dose passes 500 mg/mm3.
Adverse effects Nausea, vomiting, neutropenia; about one-fourth of Adriamycin-treated patients develop late cardiac abnormalities once the cumulative dose passes 450 mg/mm2 including cardiac failure, dysrhythmia and sudden death; post-mortem examination of the heart reveals myocardial fibrosis.
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adriamycin

Doxorubicin HCl Oncology An anthracycline antibiotic with antineoplastic activity, used to treat both leukemia and solid tumors; its efficacy is hampered by cardiotoxicity that ↑ as the cumulative dose passes 500 mg/mm3
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Adriamycin

Doxorubicin. An anticancer drug which acts by interfering with cell division.
Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005

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