Mitomycin is an antineoplastic antibiotic first isolated by Japanese microbiologists in the 1950s from cultures of Streptomyces caespitosus. It is an alkylating agent that inhibits DNA synthesis (and, at higher concentrations, RNA and protein synthesis) by cross-linking the complementary strands of the DNA double helix. Few other antibiotics have been discov...
For treatment of malignant neoplasm of lip, oral cavity, pharynx, digestive organs, peritoneum, female breast, and urinary bladder. Also used as an adjunct to ab externo glaucoma surgery. Mitomycin is also indicated as a pyelocalyceal solution for the treatment of adults with low-grade upper tract urothelial cancer (LG-UTUC).
Mayo Clinic in Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Peritoneal Malignancy Institute Basingstoke - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States
Medizinische Universitaet Graz, Graz, Austria
Associacao Hospitalar Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Ahmed Maher, Cairo, القاهرة, Egypt
Roland Seiler, Biel, Switzerland
Low Country Urology Clinics, North Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Houston Metro Urology, Houston, Texas, United States
The Urology Group, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States
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