Adriamycin Overview

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About Your Treatment

Your doctor has ordered the drug doxorubicin to help treat your illness. The drug is given by injection into a vein.

This medication is used to treat:

  • breast cancer

  • ovarian cancer

  • transitional cell bladder cancer

  • bronchogenic lung cancer

  • thyroid cancer


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Encyclopedia: Adriamycin

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Doxorubicin or hydroxyldaunorubicin is a drug widely used in cancer chemotherapy. It is an anthracycline antibiotic and structurally closely related to daunomycin, and also intercalates DNA. It is commonly used in the treatment of a wide range of cancers. The drug is administered by injection. It may be sold under the brand names Adriamycin PFS, Adriamycin RDF, or Rubex. Doxil is a liposome-encapsulated dosage form of doxorubicin made by Ben...


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Does anyone know about the long term side effects from the chemotherapy drugs Adriamycin and...
I am a childhood cancer survivor starting to wonder about the effects the chemo and...

There may be long term side effects. This is quite unknown but some studies are being done and there are survivor groups that may be able to sort this out...

Asked by mcquerrd - 9 months ago

Adriamycin and being sterile?
My fiance has cancer about 7 years ago. His chemo was Adriamycin. His doctor...

it would depend on how much medications he took, there's a reality that these things do happen

Asked by Kick IT - 1 month ago


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