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granisetron
(redirected from Kytril)

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granisetron /gran·is·e·tron/ (gra-nis´e-tron) an antiemetic used in conjunction with cancer chemotherapy or radiotherapy, administered as the hydrochloride salt.
granisetron
a 5-HT3-antagonist with potent antiemetic activity.

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The new drugs, Zofran or Ondansetran, and Kytril, are so effective that patients are now having chemotherapy treatments on their lunch breaks.
The prescription drugs mentioned in this complaint include: Alkeran, Blenoxane, Cytoxan, Etopophos, Kytril, Navelbine, Paraplatin, Procrit, Remicade, Rubex, Taxol, Vepesid, Zofran, Zoladex and Zovirax.
The Roche oncology portfolio also includes NeoRecormon (anaemia in various cancer settings), Bondronat (prevention of skeletal events in breast cancer and bone metastases patients, hypercalcaemia of malignancy), Kytril (chemotherapy and radiotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting) and Roferon-A (hairy cell and chronic myeloid leukaemia, Kaposi's sarcoma, malignant melanoma, renal cell carcinoma).
 
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