What are Anticancer Drugs, and their Examples?
Anticancer drugs are also known as oncology drugs as well as antineoplastic drugs. These are the drugs having efficacy to treat cancer or malignant. There are number of different types of cancer exist for example Breast cancer, bladder cancer, colorectal cancer, kidney cancer, lung cancer, oropharyngeal cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, thyroid cancer, uterine cancer, cervical cancer, esophageal cancer, eye cancer, gallbladder cancer, head and neck cancer, parathyroid cancer, stomach cancer, skin cancer, vaginal cancer, bone cancer, brain tumor etc. For the treatment of different types of cancer, there are different categories of anticancer drugs are used. POLYFUNCTIONAL ALKYLATING AGENT - Example Nitrosoureas, Busulphan etc. OTHER ALKYLATING DRUGS - Examples- Cisplatin, Dacarbazine, Procarbazine etc. ANTIMETABOLITES - Examples - Methotrexate, Azaserine etc. PURINE ANTAGONISTS Examples - Pentostatin, Mercaptopurine, Thioguanine, Cladiribine etc....