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- noun any of a class of
antibiotic ,chemotherapeutic agents used to treatcancer
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some of the women got both tamoxifen and a chemotherapy drug known as anthracycline, and some got tamoxifen alone.
Reuters: Top News 2009
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Pharmion's clinical development pipeline includes Amrubicin, a third generation synthetic anthracycline, which is in Phase III development for the treatment of small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) under an approved Special Protocol Assessment (SPA).
Portable Planet 2009
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not turning to a third type of drug known as an anthracycline, improves survival while posing less danger to the heart, researchers report.
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At present treatment for cancer remains relatively universal with most patients being offered the same trial and error approach starting with "anthracycline" chemotherapy.
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Pixantrone is a next-generation anthracycline designed to be more effective and less toxic, allowing patients to continue therapy for longer.
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During a recent checkup, however, her oncologist recommended that she go for an echocardiogram — an ultrasound of the heart — because one of the drugs she had taken was the anthracycline doxorubicin.
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Doctors say anyone treated with an anthracycline as a child should get regular diagnostic tests for heart problems every one to five years, depending on the dose they received.
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However, heart problems described as serious and life-threatening have been reported in certain patients who were also administered anthracycline, a chemotherapy drug.
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When Herceptin is given with doxorubicin Adriamycin, an anthracycline, toxic cardiac effects have been seen.
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"We are saying we think it is the standard of care, with comparable effects, and you lose all the anthracycline toxicity."
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