LYCOS RETRIEVER
Vincristine: Vincristine Sulphate
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Vincristine sulphate has been used since the early 1960s for treatment of acute leukaemia in children, often in combination with other antineoplastic agents. It is ... frequently a part of combination chemotherapeutic regimens for Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and other adult neoplasms.
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Vincristine sulphate is mainly used in the treatment of cancers of the blood (leukaemia). It may ... be given in combination with other anti-cancer medicines to treat other types of cancer, for example cancers of the breast, brain or lung and some cancers in children.
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Vincristine Sulphate is indicated in acute leukemia. Also useful in combination with other oncolytic agents in Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphomas (lymphocytic, mixed-cell histolytic, undifferentiated, nodular, and diffuse types), rhabdomyosarcoma, neuroblastoma and Wilms tumor.
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