Pegaspargase is a conjugate of monomethoxypolyethylene glycol (mPEG) and L-asparaginase (L-asparagine amidohydrolase), an asparagine-specific enzyme that converts L-asparagine into aspartic acid and ammonia. Asparagine is an amino acid that is vital for cell survival. In humans, most normal tissues can produce asparagine through the action of asparagine synt...
Pegaspargase is indicated as a component of a multi-agent chemotherapeutic regimen for the treatment of pediatric and adult patients with 1) first-line acute lymphoblastic leukemia or 2) acute lymphoblastic leukemia and hypersensitivity to asparaginase.
Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Children's Hospital of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Sick Kids, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California, United States
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Scott and White Memorial Hospital, Temple, Texas, United States
Henry Ford Health Saint John Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States
Children's Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
McMaster Children's Hospital at Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States
Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite Laval, Sainte Foy, Quebec, Canada
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Egleston, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Childrens Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Dr. von Haunersches Kinderspital der Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany
Kreskrankenhaus Kinderabteilung, Heide, Germany
Universitaets - Kinderklinik, Leipzig, Germany
Department of Pediatrics, Skejby Hospital, Aarhus, Aarhus N, Denmark
Marshfield Medical Center-Marshfield, Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States
Driscoll Children's Hospital, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke-Fleurimont, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington, United States
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