Description
A drug used to treat many types of cancer and a certain type of kidney disease in children. Cyclophosphamide damages the cell’s DNA and may kill cancer cells. It may also lower the body’s immune response. Cyclophosphamide is a type of alkylating agent. Also called CTX.
Cyclophosphamide is approved to be used alone or with other drugs to treat:
- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children.
- Acute monocytic leukemia.
- Acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
- Breast cancer.
- Chronic granulocytic leukemia.
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
- Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML).
- Hodgkin lymphoma. It is used in patients with stage III or stage IV disease.
- Multiple myeloma.
- Mycosis fungoides (a type of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma) that is advanced.
- Neuroblastoma that is disseminated.
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).
- Ovarian cancer.
- Retinoblastoma.
Cyclophosphamide is also being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer.
