melphalan
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- noun
- /mɛlˈfælən/
- Specialized
- Lower dosages of melphalan (120 mg/m² to 150 mg/m²) were administered to patients with impaired kidney function.
Examples
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The majority of patients received high-dose chemotherapy with 200 mg/m² of melphalan (Alkeran) as part of their transplant.
Blog text (3) -
Doctors often prescribe melphalan to treat patients diagnosed with multiple myeloma.
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Where does this leave patients whose initial treatment included either melphalan or cyclophosphamide and a novel agent?
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They treated an elderly woman with a disease of the lower extremity with tumor necrosis factor and melphalan and reported no evidence of recurrent disease at 2 years of follow-up.
Academic text (2001) -
CHEMOSAT is a platform developed by Delcath that administers the chemotherapeutic agent melphalan hydrochloride directly into the liver's bloodstream through a system of catheters.
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The chemotherapy regimen included melphalan as a key component in combating the patient's cancer.
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Following her diagnosis, she started a treatment plan that utilized melphalan to target her cancerous cells.
Synonyms
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A medicine doctors use to treat some cancers
Surface Forms
Etymology
Melphalan comes from the way the medicine was made: it is a 'phenylalanine mustard', a name that links the amino acid phenylalanine ('an amino acid') with mustard ('a type of cancer drug'). So melphalan is a cancer medicine whose name reminds you it combines an amino acid part with a 'mustard' chemical that attacks cancer cells.