Section outline

    • Drug therapies for cancer
    • Combination cancer therapies
    • Antineoplastic drugs (classes, mechanisms of action, indications)
    • Side effects associated with antineoplastic drugs
    • Immunosuppresants (myelotoxic agents, glucocorticoids, calcineurin inhibitors, inhibitors of cytokine and growth factor action & leflunomide analogs)
    • Immunostimulants (e.g. cimetidine, levamisole, cell wall extract of a non-pathogenic strain of Mycobacterium bovis (Bacille Calmette-Guérin), extracts of Serratia marcescens, etc)