vinblastine
noun
vin·blas·tine
(ˌ)vin-ˈbla-ˌstēn 
: an alkaloid C46H58N4O9 from the rosy periwinkle used especially in the form of its sulfate to treat human neoplastic diseases (such as Hodgkin's disease)
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However, in recent weeks, her colleagues who treat blood cancers have expressed deep concerns about the availability of vinblastine.
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 25 Sep. 2023
However, reports from children’s hospitals across the country are pointing to supply problems for two other chemotherapy drugs that are commonly used to treat pediatric cancers: vinblastine and dacarbazine.
—Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 25 Sep. 2023
The rose periwinkle has given us vinblastine and vincristine, both used to treat leukaemia.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2012
The 16 drugs that Pfizer and Cipla will sell have unfamiliar names like vinblastine, bleomycin and fluorouracil.
—Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 7 Oct. 2017
The combinations — Adriamycin, bleomycin, vinblastine and dacarbazine, for instance, to treat Hodgkin’s disease — were rarely changed for individual patients.
—Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times, 12 May 2016
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 25 Sep. 2023
However, reports from children’s hospitals across the country are pointing to supply problems for two other chemotherapy drugs that are commonly used to treat pediatric cancers: vinblastine and dacarbazine.
—Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 25 Sep. 2023
The rose periwinkle has given us vinblastine and vincristine, both used to treat leukaemia.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2012
The 16 drugs that Pfizer and Cipla will sell have unfamiliar names like vinblastine, bleomycin and fluorouracil.
—Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 7 Oct. 2017
The combinations — Adriamycin, bleomycin, vinblastine and dacarbazine, for instance, to treat Hodgkin’s disease — were rarely changed for individual patients.
—Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times, 12 May 2016
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vinblastine
noun
vin·blas·tine
(ˈ)vin-ˈblas-ˌtēn
: an alkaloid that is obtained from the rosy periwinkle and that is used especially in the form of its sulfate C46H58N4O9·H2SO4 to treat human neoplastic diseases (as Hodgkin's lymphoma and testicular carcinoma)
called also vincaleukoblastine
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