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Hydrea
Hydrea is used for: Treating skin cancer, cancer of the ovary, or chronic myelocytic leukemia that is recurrent, has spread, or cannot be helped with surgery. It may also be used with radiation to control skin cancers of the head and neck. It may also be used for other conditions as determined by...
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Hydrea
Hydroxyurea affects certain cells in the body, such as cancer cells or sickled red blood cells. Hydroxyurea is used to treat melanoma (a type of skin cancer), chronic myelocytic leukemia, cancer of the ovary, and primary squamous cell (skin) cancer of the head and neck. Hydroxyurea is also used to...
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Hydrea
HYDREA® (hydroxyurea capsules, USP) is an antineoplastic agent available for oral use as capsules providing 500 mg hydroxyurea. Inactive ingredients: citric acid, colorants (D&C Yellow No. 10, FD&C Blue No. 1, FD&C Red 40, and D&C Red 28), gelatin, lactose, magnesium stearate,...
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Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)
...include dasatinib (Sprycel) and nilotinib (Tasigna). They work in a similar way as imatinib. Sometimes a chemotherapy medicine called hydroxyurea (Hydrea) is used temporarily to control the white blood cell count. The blast crisis phase is very difficult to treat, because it is marked by a very high...
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See also: Anemia, Sickle Cell, Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Polycythemia Vera, Solid Tumors

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