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Dr. V Drug Treatments
Drug matched w/ type of cancers
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Aerospace Engineering
1st Grade
04/02/2013

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Rituximab (Rituxan)
Definition
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; some leukemias
Term
Trastuzumab (Herceptin)
Definition
some breast cancers and some gastric cancers
Term
Bretuximab (Adcetris)
Definition
WBC tumors, lymphomas
Term
Denileukin diftitox (Ontak)
Definition
leukemias and lymphomas where cancerous WBCs kill CD25
Term
Ipilimumab (Yervoy)
Definition
malignant melanoma
Term
Sipuleucel-T (provenge)
Definition
Prostate cancer
Term
Imatilmib (Gleevec)
Definition
chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) and other leukemias that are BCL-ABL +
Term
IL-2 (Aldesleukin)
Definition
thought to activate immune system (T cells) but has some severe side effects
Term
IFN Alpha
Definition
Anti (alpha) viral responses; promotes T cells as well as acting directly on tumor cells to slow rate of proliferation
Term
Erlotinib (Tarceva)
Definition
TKI that stops proliferation and inhibits angiogenesis
Term
Certuximab (Erbitux)
Definition
anti-angiogenesis
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Bevacizumab (avastin)
Definition
specific for vEGF
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Brotezomib (velcade) and Carfilzomib (Kyprolis)
Definition
multiple myeloma
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