"Magic bullets"--monoclonal antibodies in acute leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment

Łuczyński, W.ło.; Krawczuk-Rybak, M.

Postepy Higieny i Medycyny Doswiadczalnej 56(6): 789-801

2002


ISSN/ISBN: 0032-5449
PMID: 12669700
Document Number: 548382
Because of high percent of failures in haematologic malignancies treatment there is a need of discovering new drugs. One of the new approaches are monoclonal antibodies, which target specific cluster differentiation antigens on tumor cells. Rituximab is an anti-CD20 antibody used in non-Hodgkin lymphoma, alemtuzumab--in B chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, gemtuzumab ozogamicin--in non-lymphoblastic leukaemia, tositumomab and ibritumomab are monoclonal antibodies binded with radiopharmaceutics and are used in non-Hodgkin lymphomas.

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