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The NCI Drug Dictionary contains technical definitions and synonyms for
drugs/agents used to treat patients with cancer or conditions related to
cancer. Each drug entry includes links to check for clinical trials listed in
NCI's PDQ® Cancer Clinical Trials Registry.
Tips on Looking Up a Drug
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In the Search box, type the name or part of the name of the drug/agent you are
looking for and click the “Go” button.
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You can use the generic name (e.g., doxorubicin), U.S. brand names (e.g.,
Rubex), NSC number, chemical structure names, or other names to find the drug.
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Click on a letter of the alphabet to browse through the dictionary or click on
"All" to see a listing of all drugs in the dictionary.
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Change the search from "Starts with" to "Contains" to find all drugs in the
dictionary that include a word or set of letters or numbers (e.g., "rubicin" to
find daunorubicin, doxorubicin, and epirubicin).
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Use the
icon to get more help.
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Some drug entries include a
button that links to a drug information summary page.
Information in the NCI Drug Dictionary is from the
NCI Thesaurus, which is produced by NCI's Enterprise Vocabulary
Services, a collaboration involving NCI's Office of Communications and NCI's
Center for Bioinformatics. Each drug entry includes a link to additional
information available from the full NCI Thesaurus database, which contains many
drugs and other terms not included here.
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