Doxorubicin

Brand Names: Adriamycin, Doxil, Myocet, Caelyx pegylated liposomal, Zolsketil pegylated liposomal, Myocet liposomal (previously Myocet), Celdoxome pegylated liposomal

Background: Doxorubicin is a cytotoxic anthracycline antibiotic isolated from cultures of Streptomyces peucetius var. caesius along side with daunorubicin, another cytotoxic agent, in 1970. Although they both have aglyconic and sugar moieties, doxorubicin's side chain terminates with a primary alcohol group compared to the methyl group of daunorubicin. Although its deta...

Indication: Doxorubicin is indicated for the treatment of neoplastic conditions like acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute myeloblastic leukemia, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, metastatic breast cancer, metastatic Wilms’ tumor, metastatic neuroblastoma, metastatic soft tissue and bone sarcomas, metastatic ovarian carcinoma, metastatic transitional cell bladder carcinom...

Associated Conditions: AIDS-related Kaposi's Sarcoma, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Advanced Endometrial Cancer, Advanced Ovarian Cancer, Breast Cancer, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Metastatic Bone Sarcomas, Metastatic Breast Cancer, Metastatic Soft Tissue Sarcoma, Metastatic Thyroid Cancer, Metastatic Urothelial Cancer, Multiple Myeloma (MM), Mycosis Fungoides (MF), Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL), Sezary Syndrome, Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia (WM), Advanced Thymoma, Advanced uterine sarcoma, Metastatic Bronchogenic Carcinoma, Metastatic Gastric carcinoma, Metastatic Neuroblastoma, Metastatic Ovarian carcinoma, Metastatic Wilms' tumor