What are Anticancer Drug and Their Classification?

Anticancer drugs are the drugs used to treat cancer. There are many types of cancer exists, according to their occurrence and target region, there are many types of anticancer drugs are developed to treat them. It may be in any dosage forms like tablet, Capsules, Injections etc.


Anticancer drugs are classified into following parts:

1. Polyfunctional alkylating drugs
Examples – Nitrogen Mustards, Nitrosoureas, Busulphan, Ethylenimines etc.

2. Other alkylating agents
Examples- Cisplatin, Procarbazine, Dacabazine, Altretamine etc.

3. Purine antagonists drugs
Examples- Fludarabine, pentostatin, Cladribine,Mercaptopurine, Thioguanine etc.

4. Pyrimidine antagonists drugs
Examples- Cytarabine, Fluorouracil, Azacitidine etc.

5. Antimetabolites drugs
Examples- Amino acid antagonist like azaserine, Antifolic acid componds like Methotrexate etc.

6. Antibiotics
Examples- Doxorubicin, Daunorubicin, Anthracyclines, Dactinomycin, Idarubincin, Plicamycin, Mitomycin, Bleomycin etc.

7. Plant alkaloids drugs
Examples- Vinblastine, Vincristine, Etoposide, Irinotecan, Teniposide,Topotecan, Paclitaxel, Docetaxel etc.

8. Hormonal drugs
Examples- Letrozole, Anastrozole, Tamoxifen, Flutamide, Gonadotropin releasing hormoneantagonist, Aromatase inhibitors, Aminoglutethimide etc.

9. Monoclonal antibody

10. Miscellaneous anticancer drugs
Examples- Amsacrine, Hydroxyurea, Asparaginase, Mitotane, Mitoxanthrone, Amifostine, Retinoic acid derivatives etc.

There are many cancer patients who experienced difficulties in getting anticancer medicines, as we know there are many less manufacturers exists in India who deals with anticancer drugs.

One of my friends introduced me to Affy group, they are one of them who deal with manufacturing of anticancer capsules in India, and they have well equipped manufacturing plant with expert manufacturing and quality unit as well as varieties of anticancer medicines in tablet, capsules and Injection sections.

Source: What are the Classification of Anticancer Drugs
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