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).
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Montefiore Medical Center, New York, New York, United States
Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Accademic Hospital, Dept. of Oncology, Uppsala, Sweden
University Hospital, Dept. of Oncology, Oslo, Norway
Skåne University Hospital, Dept. of Oncology, Lund, Sweden
M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Ophthalmic Research Center, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Glaucoma unit , Department of Ophthalmology Faculty of Medicine Prince of Songkla University, Hat-yai, Songkhla, Thailand
Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
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