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.
City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States
Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, Minhang, China
MD Anderson, Houston, Texas, United States
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Anticancer Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, Greece
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Univerity of Turin, Torino, Italy
John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey, United States
Colorado Blood Cancer Institute, Denver, Colorado, United States
Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford, California, United States
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Stanford Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States
Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China
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