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  • noun A cytidine analogue used in the treatment of myelodysplastic syndrome.

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  • years and older who failed treatment with at least one hypomethylating agent, such as azacitidine or decitabine.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • News) ("Cyclacel") announced today 1-year survival data from a Phase 2 randomized trial of oral sapacitabine capsules, a novel nucleoside analogue, in older patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) refractory to hypomethylating agents, such as azacitidine and decitabine.

    Cyclacel Reports Phase 2 Survival Data With Sapacitabine in Myelodysplastic Syndromes at 2010 ASH Annual Meeting - Yahoo! Finance 2010

  • The Food and Drug Administration approved azacitidine in May 2004; the drug is now marketed as Vidaza.

    Beyond the Book of Life 2009

  • In the 1980s, as a young oncology fellow at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, Lewis Silverman proposed testing azacitidine as an epigenetic drug — that is, at lower doses than is typical for traditional chemotherapy, where it still might be effective reversing silenced genes.

    Beyond the Book of Life 2009

  • Last year, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first epigenetic drug, azacitidine , which treats a form of leukemia by reactivating those genes.

    Whew! Your DNA Isn't Your Destiny 2005

  • One of the drugs used in the study, azacitidine, had been tested on different cancers decades ago but was deemed too toxic to use.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • These researchers also used low doses of azacitidine, combined with a newer drug, etinostat.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The first patient was treated in a phase II investigator-sponsored trial of lintuzumab in combination with Vidaza (azacitidine) for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • The first patient was treated in a phase II investigator-sponsored trial of lintuzumab in combination with Vidaza (azacitidine) for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • The first patient was treated in a phase II investigator-sponsored trial of lintuzumab in combination with Vidaza (azacitidine) for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

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