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.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States
Universitaetsspital-Basel, Basel, Switzerland
AZ Sint-Jan, Brugge, Belgium
H. Hartziekenhuis - Roeselaere., Roeselare, Belgium
Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Hopital Cantonal Universitaire de Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
NYU School of Medicine's Kaplan Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States
Charles University Hospital, Prague (Praha), Czech Republic
City Hospital - Birmingham, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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