Asparaginase is an important agent used to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) . Asparagine is incorporated into most proteins, and the synthesis of proteins is stopped when asparagine is absent, which inhibits RNA and DNA synthesis, resulting in a halt in cellular proliferation. This forms the basis of asparaginase treatment in ALL , , .
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This drug is is an asparagine specific enzyme indicated as a component of a multi-agent chemotherapeutic regimen for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in pediatric and young adult patients age 1 month to 21 years .
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MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center, Downey, California, United States
Renown Regional Medical Center, Reno, Nevada, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States
Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, Florida, United States
Ascension Borgess Hospital, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
Presbyterian Hospital, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States
University of California San Francisco-Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
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