Chemical Properties
Dark Blue Crystalline Solid
Uses
A DNA intercalating drug. Inhibits DNA synthesis. Used as an anti-cancer agent
Uses
Mitoxantrone is a DNA intercalating drug. Mitoxantrone inhibits DNA synthesis. Mitoxantrone is used as an anti-cancer agent.
Indications
Mitoxantrone (Novantrone) is a synthetic anthraquinone that is structurally and mechanistically related to the anthracyclines. It intercalates with DNA and produces single- strand DNA breakage. It is cross-resistant with doxorubicin in multidrug-resistant cells and in patients who have failed to respond to doxorubicin therapy.
Mitoxantrone is active against breast carcinomas, leukemias, and lymphomas. Its antitumor efficacy in patients with breast cancer is slightly lower than that of doxorubicin. Its major toxicity is myelosuppression; mucositis and diarrhea also may occur. Mitoxantrone produces less nausea, alopecia, and cardiac toxicity than does doxorubicin.
Brand name
Novantrone (Serono).
Veterinary Drugs and Treatments
Mitoxantrone may be useful in the treatment of several neoplastic diseases in dogs and cats, including lymphosarcoma mammary adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, renal adenocarcinoma, fibroid sarcoma, thyroid or transitional cell carcinomas, and hemangiopericytoma.
Because renal clearance of the drug is minimal (10%), it may be administered to cats with renal insufficiency much more safely than doxorubicin.
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