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...
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...
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States
University Hospital Lille, Lille, France
Charité, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
HOPITAL HENRI MONDOR - Unité Hémopathies Lymphoïdes, Créteil, France
GUSTAVE ROUSSY CANCER CAMPUS GRAND PARIS - Département Médecine Oncologique, Villejuif, France
CH ANNECY GENEVOIS - SITE D'ANNECY - Service Hématologie, Pringy, France
Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China
Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, Portland, Oregon, United States
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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