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.
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Madrid, Spain
Hospital Virgen de la Nieves, Granada, Spain
Ospedale Santa Maria della Misericordia, Udine, Italy
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Medicine, El Segundo, California, United States
City of Hope Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States
University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, Colorado, United States
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
University Hospital Ghent, Gent, Belgium
University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Centre Oscar Lambret, Lille, France
M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
Massachusetts General Hospital: Transplantation, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Medicine, El Segundo, California, United States
Emory University Hospital/Winship Cancer Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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