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Methotrexate,
formerly known as amethopterin, is a
chemotherapy agent and immune-system suppressant. It is used to
treat cancer,
autoimmune diseases, and...
- as leucovorin, is a
medication used to
decrease the
toxic effects of
methotrexate and pyrimethamine. It is also used in
combination with 5-fluorouracil...
- Disease-modifying
antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), such as
hydroxychloroquine and
methotrexate, may be used to try to slow the
progression of disease.
Biological DMARDs...
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Cyclophosphamide Methotrexate Fluorouracil (CMF) is a
commonly used
regimen of
breast cancer chemotherapy that
combines three anti-cancer agents: cyclophosphamide...
- or to
remove the
fallopian tube altogether. The use of the
medication methotrexate works as well as
surgery in some cases.
Specifically it
works well when...
- tsDMARDs, respectively)
csDMARDs are the
traditional drugs (such as
methotrexate, sulfasalazine, leflunomide, hydroxychloroquine, gold salts) tsDMARDs...
-
deoxynucleoside analogues and thiopurines. The anti-folates
include methotrexate and pemetrexed.
Methotrexate inhibits dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR), an
enzyme that...
- (DMARDs).
Upadacitinib may be used as
monotherapy or in
combination with
methotrexate.
Upadacitinib was
approved in
January 2022, by the FDA for
treating adults...
-
addition of IV
methotrexate and
folinic acid (leucovorin) may
extend survival to a
median of 3.5 years. If
radiation is
added to
methotrexate,
median survival...
- problems,
steroids such as
prednisone are indicated.
Medications such as
methotrexate, chloroquine, or
azathioprine may
occasionally be used in an
effort to...
