- tegafur
- An anticancer drug that belongs to the family of drugs called antimetabolites.
English dictionary of cancer terms . 2015.
tegafur
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Tégafur — structure de l énantiomère R du tégafur (à gauche) et S tégafur (à droite) Général … Wikipédia en Français
Tegafur — Strukturformel (R) Form (links) und (S) Form (rechts) Allgemeines … Deutsch Wikipedia
Tegafur — Drugbox IUPAC name = 5 fluoro 1 (oxolan 2 yl)pyrimidine 2,4 dione CAS number = 17902 23 7 CAS supplemental = ATC prefix = L01 ATC suffix = BC03 ATC supplemental = PubChem = 5386 DrugBank = chemical formula = C=8 | H=9 | F=1 | N=2 | O=3 molecular… … Wikipedia
Tegafur-uracil — is a chemotherapy drug used in the treatment of cancer, primarily bowel cancer. It is also called UFT or UFUR. [ [http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Treatments/Chemotherapy/Individualdrugs/Tegafur uracil Tegafur uracil (Uftoral) : Cancerbackup ] ]… … Wikipedia
tegafur-uracil — A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer. It is a combination of tegafur and uracil. The tegafur is taken up by the cancer cells and breaks down into 5 FU, a substance that kills tumor cells. The uracil causes higher… … English dictionary of cancer terms
tegafur — noun A particular drug used to treat cancer … Wiktionary
tegafur — teg·a·fur (tegґə fər) an investigational cancer chemotherapeutic agent, which is 5 fluorouracil (5 FU) attached to a tetrahydrofuran moiety analogous to the ribose and deoxyribose moieties in the active metabolites of 5 FU. It acts like … Medical dictionary
tegafur/uracil — see fluoropyrimidine, fluorouracil … The new mediacal dictionary
Ftorafur — A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer. It is a combination of tegafur and uracil. The tegafur is taken up by the cancer cells and breaks down into 5 FU, a substance that kills tumor cells. The uracil causes higher… … English dictionary of cancer terms
UFT — A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer. It is a combination of tegafur and uracil. The tegafur is taken up by the cancer cells and breaks down into 5 FU, a substance that kills tumor cells. The uracil causes higher… … English dictionary of cancer terms
