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  • noun An anthracycline antibiotic drug used in cancer chemotherapy.

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  • But Ted's history of heart trouble meant he couldn't take one of the drugs, called adriamycin, which can cause heart damage.

    Lack of Evidence Hinders Cancer Treatment in Elderly Richard C. Frank, MD 2009

  • Drugs such as adriamycin, taxol, cisplatin, and 5FU are a few of the most common medicines used to help abate the side effect symptoms.

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  • For the past decade, a modified chemotherapy regimen consisting of cyclophosphamide, vincristine, procarbazine and prednisone (COPP), together with adriamycin, bleomycin and vinblastine (ABV) has been used to treat patients with HD.

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  • All of is difficult acetylcysteine scientific discovery adriamycin influenza.

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  • I had the opportunity to watch the finest at Sloan Kettering apply their nostrums - FDA approved drugs such as metatrexate and adriamycin and “compassionate” exemption drugs like mitomycin.

    F.D.A. Takes Aim at Herbal Cancer ‘Cures’ - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • For instance, certain drugs such as the potentially heart-toxic chemotherapy drug adriamycin can be given in one-half to one-third the normal dosage when the patient drinks one glass of grapefruit juice a day.

    The Source Woodson Merrell 2008

  • Maybe I've seen too many children die too slowly being fed too much hope while we infused them with vincristine and adriamycin and other chemicals that require gloves to handle.

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  • For instance, certain drugs such as the potentially heart-toxic chemotherapy drug adriamycin can be given in one-half to one-third the normal dosage when the patient drinks one glass of grapefruit juice a day.

    The Source Woodson Merrell 2008

  • Therapy using a combination of drugs—especially the combinations called CA (cyclophosphamide and adriamycin) and a taxane (taxol or taxotere)—gave better results in studies than one drug used alone.

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • The women had been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, and their treatments had included lumpectomy, radiation therapy and chemotherapy with cytoxan and adriamycin for one to four years before they broke a hip.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

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