Category:
Anti-tumor Preparations
CAS NO:
50-76-0
Standard:
USP,
Dactinomycin is approved to be used alone or with other drugs to treat:
• Ewing sarcoma in adults and children.
• Gestational trophoblastic disease in adults and children.
• Rhabdomyosarcoma in adults and children.
• Solid tumors that are locally recurrent. It is used as palliative and/or adjuvant therapy in adults.
• Testicular cancer. It is used in adults and children whose nonseminomas have metastasized (spread to other parts of the body).
• Wilms tumor in adults and children.
Dactinomycin is also being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer.