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).
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States
Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States
Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Shibīn Al Kawm, Egypt
Roland Seiler, Biel, Switzerland
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States
George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Northwell Health Cancer Institute at Huntington, Greenlawn, New York, United States
Mayo Clinic in Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, United States
City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States
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