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ABVD is a chemotherapy regimen used in the first-line treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma, replacing the older MOPP protocol. It consists of concurrent treatment with the chemotherapy drugs: Adriamycin (also known as doxorubicin / hydroxydaunorubicin, designated as H in CHOP) Bleomycin. Vinblastine. Dacarbazine (similar to procarbazine, designated as ...
Chemotherapy regimen. A chemotherapy regimen is a regimen for chemotherapy, defining the drugs to be used, their dosage, the frequency and duration of treatments, and other considerations. In modern oncology, many regimens combine several chemotherapy drugs in combination chemotherapy. The majority of drugs used in cancer chemotherapy are ...
Electrochemotherapy. Electrochemotherapy (ECT [ 1]) is a type of chemotherapy that allows delivery of non-permeant drugs to the cell interior. It is based on the local application of short and intense electric pulses that transiently permeabilize the cell membrane, thus allowing transport of molecules otherwise not permitted by the membrane ...
EPOCH is an intensive chemotherapy regimen intended for treatment of aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. [ 1][ 2] It is often combined with rituximab. In this case it is called R-EPOCH or EPOCH-R .The R-EPOCH regimen consists of: Hydroxydaunorubicin, also known as doxorubicin: an anthracycline antibiotic that is able to intercalate DNA, damaging ...
The beginnings of the modern era of cancer chemotherapy can be traced directly to the German introduction of chemical warfare during World War I. Among the chemical agents used, mustard gas was particularly devastating. Although banned by the Geneva Protocol in 1925, the advent of World War II caused concerns over the possible re-introduction ...
The following is a list of some of the commonly used adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer: CMF: cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and 5- fluorouracil. [ 4] FAC (or CAF): 5- fluorouracil, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide. [ 5] AC (or CA): Adriamycin ( doxorubicin) and cyclophosphamide. [ 6]
Dose-dense chemotherapy. Dose-dense chemotherapy is a chemotherapy treatment plan in which drugs are given with less time between treatments than in a standard chemotherapy treatment plan. [ 1] The Gompertzian model of tumor cell growth shows tumor cells growing fastest when the tumor is small. When a large (slow growing) tumor is surgically ...
7+3 (chemotherapy) "7+3" in the context of chemotherapy is an acronym for a chemotherapy regimen that is most often used today (as of 2014) as first-line induction therapy (to induce remission) in acute myelogenous leukemia, [ 1][ 2] excluding the acute promyelocytic leukemia form, which is better treated with ATRA and/or arsenic trioxide and ...