Busulfan is a bifunctional alkylating agent, having a selective immunosuppressive effect on bone marrow. It is not a structural analog of the nitrogen mustards. It has been used in the palliative treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (myeloid leukemia, chronic), but although symptomatic relief is provided, no permanent remission is brought about. According t...
For use in combination with cyclophosphamide as a conditioning regimen prior to allogeneic hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation for chronic myelogenous (myeloid, myelocytic, granulocytic) leukemia (FDA has designated busulfan as an orphan drug for this use). It is also used as a component of pretransplant conditioning regimens in patients undergoing...
First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation
First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - Adults, New York, New York, United States
Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan, United States
Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Richmond, Virginia, United States
Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
Monash Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Women and Children's Hospital Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Wilmot Cancer Institute, Rochester, New York, United States
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