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Chlorambucil is a nitrogen mustard derivative that belongs to a group of chemicals known as alkylating agents.
Chlorambucil is most commonly used to treat cancers of the blood and lymphatic system; however, it is also effective against some other tumors and immune-mediated conditions, such as pemphigus foliaceous and feline eosinophilia granuloma complex.
Chlorambucil is rapidly and completely absorbed from the GI tract, achieves peak plasma levels in an hour, and is transported highly bound to plasma protein (albumin).
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 MedlinePlus Drug Information: Chlorambucil (Systemic)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Chlorambucil interferes with the growth of cancer cells, which are eventually destroyed.
Chlorambucil may also be used for other conditions as determined by your doctor.
Chlorambucil may lower your body's resistance and there is a chance you might get the infection the immunization is meant to prevent.
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Chlorambucil crosses the placenta, but it is not known whether it enters maternal milk.
Chlorambucil is extensively metabolized in the liver, primarily to phenylacetic acid mustard, which is active.
Chlorambucil has been documented to cause irre­versible infertility in male humans, particularly when given during pre-puberty and puberty.
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More specifically, chlorambucil is used to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia (a type of leukemia caused by overproduction and abnormal formation of certain white blood cells important in the body's immune system) and Hodgkin's disease (a type of cancer affecting the lymphatic system, characterized by painless swelling of the lymph nodes).
Chlorambucil kills cancer cells by interfering with the activity of their genetic material, thus preventing the cells from reproducing.
Chlorambucil may lower your ability to resist infection by lowering the number of white blood cells in the blood.
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 ACS :: Cancer Drug Guide: chlorambucil
Chlorambucil belongs to the general group of chemotherapy drugs known as alkylating agents.
Chlorambucil stops the growth of cancer cells, causing the cells to die.
Chlorambucil is a pill that is given by mouth once a day for a short or long time depending upon the type of cancer being treated.
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Chlorambucil has been tested for carcinogenicity in mice and rats by intraperitoneal injection and in female rats by oral gavage.
Chlorambucil induced chromosomal aberrations in embryo cells of rats treated in vivo.
Chlorambucil induced sex-linked recessive lethal mutations in Drosophila and mutation and gene conversion in yeast.
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 Chlorambucil - Family factsheets - GOSH and ICH
Chlorambucil is a chemotherapy drug used to treat certain types of leukaemia and cancer.
The amount of chlorambucil will be carefully calculated to minimise the risk of any changes and care is taken for those children who have impaired lung function and those who have had lung or chest radiotherapy.
Second cancers: If your child is given chlorambucil for a long time, there is a small risk of him or her developing a second cancer after many years.
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Chlorambucil’s bone marrow suppression side effect may be compounded if chlorambucil is used with other medications that also share possible bone marrow suppression as a side effect.
Chlorambucil should not be used in patients with pre-existing bone marrow suppression.
Chlorambucil is suppressive to the immune system and should be used with caution in patients already immune suppressed (such as FIV+ cats) or with chronic infections.
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 Chlorambucil : BC Cancer Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Chlorambucil and its metabolites are probably not dialysable.
For example, when chlorambucil is used to treat certain types of leukemias or lymphomas it can be given in a variety of schedules, including a continuous daily regimen.
Pharmacokinetics and metabolism of chlorambucil in patients with malignant disease.
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 Chlorambucil - [Medication]
Chlorambucil is used to treat leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Chlorambucil is an effective treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
Chlorambucil should be administered only under the supervision of a medical oncologist or hematologist.
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 Fludarabine Compared With Chlorambucil As Primary Therapy For Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
When comparing fludarabine with chlorambucil in a large number of at-risk patients in each arm, chlorambucil continues to be "mainly palliative", reducing the size of lymph nodes, and the number of lymphocytes, but without accomplishing much more than that.
Seventy or eighty of the 180 patients in the chlorambucil group were crossed over to fludarabine, whereas only about 29 or 30 patients from the chlorambucil arm were crossed over to fludarabine.
In that age group, chlorambucil was a reasonable choice as it was less toxic and required fewer visits to the clinic, said Dr. Rai.
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 Leukeran Online, Description, Chemistry, Ingredients - Chlorambucil - RxList Monographs
Chlorambucil is probably mutagenic and teratogenic in humans.
LEUKERAN (chlorambucil) is available in tablet form for oral administration.
Each sugar-coated tablet contains 2 mg chlorambucil and the inactive ingredients acacia, corn and wheat starch, lactose, magnesium stearate, pharmaceutical glaze, polysorbate 60, sucrose, and talc.
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Chlorambucil is taken by mouth with or without food.
Chlorambucil can decrease the number of white blood cells in your body, cells that usually help you fight infections.
Chlorambucil may cause side effects that do not occur for months or years after you finish chemotherapy, including leukemia or decreased ability to have children.
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 Chlorambucil - Drugs & Vitamins - Drug Library - DrugDigest
Chlorambucil is used to treat cancers of the blood and certain other types of cancer.
This is not uncommon because chlorambucil affects good cells as well as cancer cells.
While you are taking chlorambucil you will be more susceptible to infection.
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Chlorambucil is in a class of drugs known as alkylating agents; it slows or stops the growth of cancer cells in your body.
Chlorambucil also is used in the treatment of Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, polycythemia vera, trophoblastic neoplasms, ovarian carcinoma, nephrotic syndrome, and various other diseases.
Keep chlorambucil in the container it came in, tightly closed, and out of reach of children.
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Pretreatment with NS-398 significantly potentiated the cytotoxicity induced by chlorambucil in 8 of 16 B-CLL samples examined.
When that point was reached in June 2002, I was given chlorambucil, a tried-and-tested 40-year-old orally administered chemotherapy specific to CLL.
Chlorambucil is an antineoplastic in the class of alkylating agents and is used to treat various forms of cancer.
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 Cancer Spectrum: pp. 861-868.
Effects of chlorambucil and therapeutic decision in initial forms of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (stage A): results of a randomized clinical trial on 612 patients.
Comparison of chlorambucil and prednisone versus cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and prednisone as initial treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia: long-term follow-up of an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group randomised clinical trial.
CHOP versus chlorambucil + prednisolone in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
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 Chlorambucil : BC Cancer Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Chlorambucil is a brown tablet to take by mouth.
Chlorambucil may damage sperm and may be harmful to the baby if used during pregnancy.
Chlorambucil may cause sterility in men and menopause in women which may be permanent.
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 Coordinated Action of Glutathione S-Transferases (GSTs) and Multidrug Resistance Protein 1 (MRP1) in Antineoplastic ...
to chlorambucil was GST A1-1 isozyme-specific because co-expression
Shown are the profiles for chlorambucil cytotoxicity (1-h drug exposure) in parental MCF7/WT (WT) and MCF7/VP (VP) cells and in MCF7/VP cells transfected with GST A1-1 (MCF7/VP Error bars represent ± 1 S.D. from the mean proportion of cells surviving (n = 8) at the indicated chlorambucil concentrations.
In the absence of MRP1, as monoglutathionyl chlorambucil
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 Preserving Renal Function in Patients with Membranous Nephropathy: Daily Oral Chlorambucil Compared with Intermittent ...
the efficacy of corticosteroids [5-7] and chlorambucil [8, 9]
chlorambucil nor cyclophosphamide, their data are not used for
Prednisolone and chlorambucil treatment in idiopathic membranous nephropathy with deteriorating renal function.
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 Chlorambucil Drug Resistance in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: The Emerging Role of DNA Repair -- Panasci et al. 7 (3): ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Chlorambucil Drug Resistance in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: The Emerging Role of DNA Repair -- Panasci et al.
chlorambucil uptake and metabolism was investigated in 17 CLL
ionizing radiation and chlorambucil in CLL lymphocytes (74).
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 Chlorambucil (Leukeran®) - VeterinaryPartner.com - a VIN company!
The treatment of cancer with medication (as opposed to surgery or radiation) is especially helpful when the cancer in question is not localized to one body area.
Overdose of chlorambucil results in bone marrow suppression in all cell lines as well as seizing.
The bone marrow suppression side effect of chlorambucil may be compounded if chlorambucil is used with other medications that also share possible bone marrow suppression as a side effect.
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 Treatments: Chlorambucil - WrongDiagnosis.com
Count: Chlorambucil is listed as a: treatment for 4 conditions; alternative treatment for 4 conditions; preventive treatment for 0 conditions; research treatment for 1 conditions.
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Albumin activates the AKT signaling pathway and protects B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells from chlorambucil- and radiation-induced apoptosis -- Jones et al.
dramatically decreased the induction of apoptosis by chlorambucil.
CLL cells preincubated with no additions or with 80 µM chlorambucil were subsequently incubated with the indicated supplements.
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 Chlorambucil (Systemic) - MayoClinic.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
This medicine may cause birth defects if either the male or female is taking it at the time of conception or if it is taken during pregnancy.
Because chlorambucil may cause serious side effects, breast-feeding is generally not recommended while you are taking it.
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur.
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 Chlorambucil, Leukeran
This decision is made by the medical oncologist.
Chlorambucil is normally administered daily for a number of days.
The degree and severity of the side effects depend on the amount and schedule of the administration of Chlorambucil.
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Leukeran (Chlorambucil) is also used for the treatment of those people who suffered to the problems as cancer of the lymphatic system (non-Hodgkins lymphoma) also known as Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia and Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.
The recommended doses of Leukeran (Chlorambucil) will be depends on type of disease or different for different patients, according to the requirements of each patient; you continue to take it for as long as your doctor prescribes, even if you do not feel an immediate benefit.
Leukeran (Chlorambucil) can decrease the production of healthy blood cells, leaving people vulnerable to infection, and regular blood tests are so needed during treatment to monitor the levels of blood cells.
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 Dr. Koop - Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia- Health Encyclopedia and Reference
This may require removing 4 to 6 units of plasma per day until blood viscosity returns to normal, and it needs to be continued until chemotherapy is effective.
The standard chemotherapy of Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia consists of repeated courses of an alkylating agent, such as cyclophosphamide or chlorambucil.
Autologous stem cell transplantation may be considered in younger patients with more aggressive disease.
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 Impact of Therapy With Chlorambucil, Fludarabine, or Fludarabine Plus Chlorambucil on Infections in Patients With ...
Impact of Therapy With Chlorambucil, Fludarabine, or Fludarabine Plus Chlorambucil on Infections in Patients With Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Intergroup Study Cancer and Leukemia Group B 9011 -- Morrison et al.
Impact of Therapy With Chlorambucil, Fludarabine, or Fludarabine Plus Chlorambucil on Infections in Patients With Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Intergroup Study Cancer and Leukemia Group B 9011
Sawitsky A, Rai KR, Glidewell O, et al: Comparison of daily versus intermittent chlorambucil and prednisone therapy in the treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
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