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.
Ruijin hospital, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Henry Ford Health Saint John Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States
Michigan State University Clinical Center, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Corewell Health Grand Rapids Hospitals - Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
McMaster Children's Hospital at Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Henry Ford Health Saint John Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States
State Key Laboratory of Experimental Haematology, Department of Paediatric Haematology, Institute of Haematology and Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Tanjin, Tianjin, China
M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Egleston, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
University of Minnesota/Masonic Cancer Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
AOUC Policlinico Bari, Bari, Italy
A.O. Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy
S.O. Annunziata - A. O. Cosenza, Cosenza, Italy
University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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