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Anticancer drugs




1. Drug of choice for breast cancer- tamoxifen
2. Drug of choice for glioma – nitrosourea
3. Drug of choice for colorectal cancer – 5 –fluorouracil
4. Drug of choice for choriocarcionma - methotrexate
5. Drug of choice for pancreatic carcinoma - flutamide
6. Drug of choice for insulinoma – streptozotocin
7. Drug of choice for prostate carcinoma – flutamide
8. 1st line chemotherapy for cervix carcinoma – cisplatin
9. Drufg of choice for brain tumor – lomutamide
10. Drug of choice for polycythemia vera – busalfan or
chloambucil
11. Drug of choice for carcinoma of endometrium –
progestins
12. Drug of choice for kaposis sarcoma – if2 alpha
13. Drug of choice for cll- chlorambucil / fludarabine
14. Drug of choice for acute myelocytic leukemia –
cytarabine with mitoxantrone
15. Drug of choice for wilm’s tumor - vincristine with
danctinomycin
16. Drug of choice for for acute promyeloblastic
leukemia – retinoic acid
17. Drug of choice for hairy cell leukemia - cladarabine
18. Drug of choice for thyroid carcinoma – 1131 with
doxorubicin & cisplatin
19. Drug of choice for stomach cancer - fluorouracil with
cisplatin
20. Drug of choice for cml – imatinib / busalfan
21. Drug of choice for all – vincristine + prednisolone +
mercaptopurine + cyclophosphamide + methotrexate
22. Druf of choice for ovarian cancer – cisplatin with
paclitaxel
23. Drug of choice for lung cancer - cisplatin with
taxane
24. Drug of choice for malignant melanoma –
dacarbazine