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...
Department of Hematology,Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health of South Florida, Miami, Florida, United States
RM Gorbacheva Research Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Levine Cancer Institute, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Ohio State Medical Center, James Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States
City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States
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