Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan)
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General information
Class/mechanism: Alkylating agent; transformed primarily in the liver to active metabolites which alkylate and crosslink DNA.[1][2]
Route: IV, PO
Extravasation: irritant, n/a
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Diseases for which it is used
- Acute lymphocytic leukemia
- Aggressive Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Bladder cancer
- Bone cancer
- Breast cancer
- Central nervous system (CNS) cancer
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and Small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL)
- Follicular lymphoma
- HIV-associated lymphoma
- Hodgkin lymphoma
- Hodgkin lymphoma, nodular lymphocyte-predominant
- Light-chain (AL) amyloidosis
- Mantle cell lymphoma
- Marginal zone lymphoma
- Mediastinal gray-zone lymphoma
- Multiple myeloma
- Neuroendocrine tumors
- Prostate cancer
- Small cell lung cancer
- T-cell lymphoma
- Thymoma
- Transplant conditioning regimens
- Waldenström macroglobulinemia
Patient drug information
- Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan) patient drug information (Chemocare)[3]
- Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan) patient drug information (UpToDate)[4]
History of changes in FDA indication
- 11/16/1959: initial FDA approval
Also known as
Synonyms | |||||||
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Alkyloxan | Biodoxan | Carloxan | Ciclofosfamida | Ciclofosfamida Filaxis | Ciclofosfamida Martian | Ciclokebir | Cyclam |
Cycloblastin | Cycloblastine | Cyclo Cell | Cycloferon | Cyclomide | Cyclophar | Cyclophospham | Cyclophosphamid |
cyclophosphamide monohydrate | Cyclophosphamid Farmos | Cyclophosphan | Cyclophosphan Lens | Cyclostin | Cycloxan | Cycram | Cydoxan |
Cyklofosfamid | Cytophosphan | Cytoxan | Cytoxan Lyophilized | Endoxan | Endoxan-N | Endoxana | Endoxan Asta |
Formitex | Genoxal | Genuxal | Hidrofosmin | Ledoxan | Ledoxina | Lyophilized Cytoxan | Neosar |
Oncomide | Oncophos | Procytox | Revimmune | Sendoxan | Syklofosfamid | Trav Cyclophosphamide | Tymtran |
Zycram |
References
Categories:
- Drug index
- Chemotherapy
- Intravenous chemotherapy
- Irritant chemotherapy
- Oral chemotherapy
- Alkylating agents
- Nitrogen mustards
- Acute lymphocytic leukemia medications
- Aggressive Non-Hodgkin lymphoma medications
- Bladder cancer medications
- Bone cancer medications
- Breast cancer medications
- Central nervous system (CNS) cancer medications
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and Small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) medications
- Follicular lymphoma medications
- HIV-associated lymphoma medications
- Hodgkin lymphoma medications
- Hodgkin lymphoma, nodular lymphocyte-predominant medications
- Light-chain (AL) amyloidosis medications
- Mantle cell lymphoma medications
- Marginal zone lymphoma medications
- Mediastinal gray-zone lymphoma medications
- Multiple myeloma medications
- Neuroendocrine tumor medications
- Prostate cancer medications
- Small cell lung cancer medications
- T-cell lymphoma medications
- Thymoma medications
- Transplant medications
- Waldenström macroglobulinemia medications
- Drugs FDA approved in 1959