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procarbazine

 [pro-kahr´bah-zēn]
an antineoplastic agent used primarily in combination with mechlorethamine, vincristine, and prednisone in the regimen called MOPP for treatment of advanced Hodgkin's disease; it also has activity against non-Hodgkin's lymphomas and brain tumors.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

procarbazine

(prō-kär′bə-zēn)
n.
A potent antineoplastic drug, C12H19N3O, used in its hydrochloride form in combination with other drugs to treat advanced Hodgkin lymphoma.
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MOPP

A 4-drug chemotherapy regimen for stage-III Hodgkin lymphoma.
 
Adverse effects
Sterility, nausea, vomiting, immunosuppression, increased infections, myelosuppression, myelodysplasia, ANLL.
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procarbazine

Matulane® Oncology An alkylating therapeutic used as part of a multi-drug treatment for Hodgkin's disease Adverse effects BM suppression, N&V, neuropathy, confusion, swelling. See Hodgkins disease.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

procarbazine

An anticancer drug used especially in the treatment of LYMPHOMAS. The drug is on the WHO official list. A brand name is Natulan.
Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005
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Adjuvant procarbazine, lomustine, and vincristine improves progression-free survival but not overall survival in newly diagnosed anaplastic oligodendrogliomas and oligoastrocytomas: a randomized European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer phase III trial.
Procarbazine containing regimes result in prolonged azoospermia in the vast majority of patients.
Treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma with MVPP (mechlorethamine, vinblastine, procarbazine and prednisolone), MOPP (mechlorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine and prednisolone) or ChIVPP (chlorambucil, vinblastine, procarbazine and prednisolone) resulted in permanent ovarian failure in 19 - 63% of cases.
The researchers compared various chemotherapy regimens and IFRT doses and found that outcomes were similar when 30 Gy of IFRT was combined with either four cycles of ABVD (doxorubicine, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine) or four cycles of BEACOPP (bleomycin, etoposide, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone).
Effects of prenatal procarbazine administration on intrauterine development in rats.
The nodes were irradiated and she also received a course of procarbazine hydrochloride.
Plants have a long history of use in the treatment of cancer providing some of the currently used effective anticancer agents such as vinblastine, vincristine, mechlorethamine, prednisone, procarbazine, etoposide, teniposide, paclitaxel, bleomycin, cisplatin and taxanes (DeVita et al.
Phase I study of temozolamide (TMZ) combined with procarbazine (PCB) in patients with gliomas.
He underwent mantle field radiation therapy and four cycles of MOPP (mechlorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone) chemotherapy.
Treatment protocol: Most patients were treated with chemotherapy alone, alternating 4 cycles of COPP (cyclophosphamide, vincristine, procarbazine and prednisolone) with 4 cycles of ABVD (doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine and dacarbazine).
The drug that started it all, Mustargen, became a key element in the revolutionary MOPP (Mustargen, Oncovin, procarbazine, and prednisone) combination chemotherapy regimen pioneered by Dr.
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