An anticancer drug that belongs to the family of drugs called antimetabolites.

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... PENTOSTATIN (Nipent®) is a type of chemotherapy for treating hairy-cell leukemia, cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and graft-versus-host disease. Pentostatin interferes with the way cancer cells of the blood grow. Pentostatin can also suppress the immune system, which makes it useful in the treatment of side effects of stem cell transplantation. Generic pentostatin injections are not available. ...
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Image:Pentostatin.png Pentostatin Systematic (IUPAC) name 8-[4-hyd ...
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