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).
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, United Kingdom
Macclesfield District General Hospital, Macclesfield, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom
Department of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center- Weiler Division, Bronx, New York, United States
Navy Warfighter Refractive Surgery Center, San Diego, California, United States
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States
Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
ICESP, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Roberts Proton Therapy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG), Geneva, Switzerland
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