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cytarabine

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cytarabine /cy·tar·a·bine/ (ara-C) (si-tar´ah-ben) an antimetabolite that inhibits DNA synthesis and hence has antineoplastic properties; used in the treatment of acute myelogenous and other types of leukemia and of meningitis associated with leukemia or lymphoma.
cyt·ar·a·bine (s-tr-bn)

cytarabine
an antimetabolite that inhibits DNA synthesis, and hence has antineoplastic and antiviral properties. Called also cytosine arabinoside, arabinosyl cytosine, ara-C.

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From January through February 2004, chemotherapy was combined with antimicrobial drug therapy according to the R-DHAP protocol (which includes dexamethasone, the chemotherapy drugs cytarabine and cisplatin, and the monoclonal antibody drug rituximab) for persisting symptoms from the B-cell lymphoma.
The first was a clinical study with GTI-2040 in combination with cytarabine for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.
Larson and a team of collaborators in 16 countries randomly assigned 1,106 CML patients to two groups, each of which received either a daily imatinib pill or a standard CML treatment--injections of interferon-alpha boosted with a compound called cytarabine.
 
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