Dacarbazine

Dacarbizine is a type of drug used to fight cancer. It works by changing DNA, which makes cancer cells grow more slowly or completely stop growing.^[1] It is used against metastatic melanoma.^[1] Only about 15.3% of people who use the drug respond to it.^[1] People who use this drug do not live any longer as a result.^[1]

It has side effects, including less blood cells, damage to the liver. I can also sometimes make other types of cancer start growing.^[1]

Dacarbazine Media

Shealy et al., J. Org. Chem. 27, 2150 (1962); Hano et al., Gann 59, 207 (1968), C.A. 69, 42527g (1968).

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 "Cancer Chemotherapy for Melanoma: Dacarbazine". About.com. 5 May 2009. Archived from the original on 14 October 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2011.

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