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anthracycline /an·thra·cy·cline/ (-si´klen) a class of antineoplastic antibiotics produced by Streptomyces peucetius and S. coeruleorubidus, including daunomycin and doxorubicin. ) Anthracycline. For daunorubicin, R1=sbondCH3; for doxorubicin, R1=sbondCHOH. anthracycline a class of antibiotics isolated from cultures of Streptomyces peucetius; it includes the antineoplastic agents daunomycin and doxorubicin. See also anthracycline antibiotic. |
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Researchers are recruiting women who have already been treated with the chemotherapy drugs Taxol or Taxotere, and an anthracycline drug such as Adriamycin, but have relapsed. In fact, after patients in breast cancer chemotherapy are given the first drug, anthracycline, only half of the patients respond to the next drug Taxol, Parissenti explains. has received approval to market its proprietary anti-cancer drug, PAXENE (paclitaxel), in Canada for the treatment of AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma in patients who have failed prior liposomal anthracycline therapy. |
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