Motexafin gadolinium is studied in the treatment of cancer by Pharmacyclics. It may make tumor cells more sensitive to radiation therapy, improve tumor images using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and kill cancer cells. It belongs to the family of drugs called metalloporphyrin complexes. Also called gadolinium texaphyrin.
Investigated for use/treatment in brain cancer, cancer/tumors (unspecified), lung cancer, and lymphoma (non-hodgkin's).
Children's Oncology Group, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Memorial Hospital, Carthage, Illinois, United States
Mason District Hospital, Havana, Illinois, United States
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine-Sylvester Cancer Center, Miami, Florida, United States
Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute at Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States
Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute at Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States
Children's Oncology Group, Arcadia, California, United States
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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