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).
Key-Whitman Eye Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
Chu Vision Institue, Bloomington, Minnesota, United States
Parkhurst NuVision, San Antonio, Texas, United States
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
The University of Kansas Medical Center, Westwood, Kansas, United States
St Thomas Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Shri Ganesh Vinayak Eye Hospital, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Sidney kimmel Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Washington Cancer Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Spectrum Health Medical Group-Division of Urology-LHCP, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Spectrum Health Medical Group-Division of Urology, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Urologic Consultants P.C., Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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