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Systemic and Local Drug Delivery for Treating Diseases of the Central Nervous System in Rodent Models
Published on: August 17, 2010
[The chemotherapy of tumors of the central nervous system (author's transl)]
Abstract:
The rational application of chemotherapy in tumors of the central nervous system is discussed in particular the use of the new derivatives of nitrosourea: BCNU (1-3 bis-(2-cloroetil) 1-nitrosourea) and CCNU (cloroetil-cicloesil-nitrosourea). The results of therapy with antimetabolites, alkylating agents, antibiotics, and plant alcaloids, are reported as well as those obtained with radio - sensitizing substances (containing B10 or BUdR, IUdR, FUdR). The results obtained in the United States and in Japan with BCNU and CCNU are considered as well as the personal data of 43 cases treated with BCNU and 10 cases treated with CCNU (including intracranial glial tumors, spinal glial tumors and metastatic tumors of the central nervous system).
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