Precursor of an alkylating nitrogen mustard antineoplastic and immunosuppressive agent that must be activated in the liver to form the active aldophosphamide. It has been used in the treatment of lymphoma and leukemia. Its side effect, alopecia, has been used for defleecing sheep. Cyclophosphamide may also cause sterility, birth defects, mutations, and cancer.
Cyclophosphamide is indicated for the treatment of malignant lymphomas, multiple myeloma, leukemias, mycosis fungoides (advanced disease), neuroblastoma (disseminated disease), adenocarcinoma of the ovary, retinoblastoma, and carcinoma of the breast. It is also indicated for the treatment of biopsy-proven minimal change nephrotic syndrome in pediatric patients.
Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Gaungdong, China
HOPITAL HENRI MONDOR - Unité Hémopathies Lymphoïdes, Créteil, France
GUSTAVE ROUSSY CANCER CAMPUS GRAND PARIS - Département Médecine Oncologique, Villejuif, France
CH ANNECY GENEVOIS - SITE D'ANNECY - Service Hématologie, Pringy, France
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, Alabama, United States
University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States
Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan
Hokkaido University Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan
Tohoku University Hospital, Miyagi, Japan
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, Portland, Oregon, United States
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center, Gilbert, Arizona, United States
University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, California, United States
Yale New Haven Hospital - Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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