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Sprycel
Sprycel is a cancer medication that slows the growth and spread of cancer cells in the body. It works by blocking proteins that cause the rapid growth of certain types of leukemia cells. Sprycel is used to treat chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) when other cancer...
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Sprycel
Sprycel is used for: Treating certain types of leukemia that do not respond to imatinib or other therapy.
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Sprycel
SPRYCEL (dasatinib) is a kinase inhibitor. The chemical name for dasatinib is N-(2-chloro-6-methylphenyl)-2-[[6-[4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazin- yl]-2-methyl-4-pyrimidinyl]amino]-5-thiazolecarboxamide,- monohydrate. The molecular formula is C22H26ClN7O2S • H2O, which corresponds to a formula...
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Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)
...with CML. Gleevec blocks the Philadelphia chromosome and is associated with very high rates of remission. New medications include dasatinib (Sprycel) and nilotinib (Tasigna). They work in a similar way as imatinib. Sometimes a chemotherapy medicine called hydroxyurea (Hydrea) is used temporarily...
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See also: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Leukemia

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