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.
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Charles University Hospital, Prague (Praha), Czech Republic
City Hospital - Birmingham, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Centre Jean Perrin, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Centre de Lute Contre le Cancer,Georges-Francois Leclerc, Dijon, France
Centre Leon Berard, Lyon, France
Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom
Cookridge Hospital, Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States
William F. Bowld Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Methodist Healthcare - Hospital of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
Johns Hopkins University/Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Driscoll Children's Hospital, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States
West Virginia University Charleston, Charleston, West Virginia, United States
University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, Portland, Oregon, United States
University of Minnesota/Masonic Cancer Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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