Vincristine is a powerful childhood leukemia drug
What is childhood leukemia?
- Childhood leukemia is a disease of the white blood cells that is the most frequent type of cancer in children and teenagers.
- In the bone marrow, abnormal white blood cells form.
- They travel fast through the bloodstream, crowding out healthy cells in the process.
- This increases the risk of infection and other disorders in the body.
What is Vincristine?
- Vincristine is a chemotherapeutic treatment that is used to treat specific kinds of leukemia (white blood cell malignancy), such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML, ANLL) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) (ALL)
- For more than three decades, vincristine (VCR) has been regularly used to treat childhood leukemia.
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