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Adriamycin

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Adriamycin /Adri·a·my·cin/ (a″dre-ah-mi´sin) trademark for preparations of doxorubicin hydrochloride.
A·dri·a·my·cin (dr--msn)
A trademark for the drug doxorubicin.
Adriamycin [a″dre-ah-mi´sin]
trademark for preparations of doxorubicin, an antineoplastic antibiotic.
adriamycin,
n an antineoplastic agent used in cancer treatment.
adriamycin
doxorubicin.
adriamycin
Doxorubicin HCl Oncology An anthracycline antibiotic with antineoplastic activity, used to treat both leukemia and solid tumors; its efficacy is hampered by cardiotoxicity that ↑ as the cumulative dose passes 500 mg/mm3
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DeFelice, MD, has spearheaded nutraceutical research worldwide since the mid-1960s, after clinical studies he and colleagues conducted on carnitine, a naturally occurring substance required by the heart for energy, demonstrated that carnitine reduces the toxic effect of the anticancer drug Adriamycin on the heart.
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In one recent study by the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Japan*, research showed that green tea, when combined with the drug Adriamycin, was more effective in treating a certain kind of ovarian sarcoma (cancer of the ovaries) than using the adriamycin alone.
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