Chemotherapy – Health, Safety, and Waste Management Issues SLIDES
[…] New Haven, Connecticut, to study potential antidotes to mustard gas as a weapon. They realized the agent’s promise as a treatment for lymphoid malignancies and began developing a mouse model for testing. Reference : http://www.onclive.com/print.php? url=/publications/Oncology-live/2011/november-2011/From-Warfare-to-Mainstay-Mustard-Derivatives-Play-Evolving-Role-in-Cancer-Therapy 12 Mustard derivatives (also known as alkylating agents) include the following: Mustragen – 1949 Chlorambucil ( Leukeran) – 1957 Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan) – 1959 Melphalan ( Alkeran) – 1964 Ifosfamide (Ifex) –...
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