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  • Title: Bleomycin-induced pulmonary toxicity in chemotherapy for testicular cancer.
    Author: Kawai K, Akaza H.
    Journal: Expert Opin Drug Saf; 2003 Nov; 2(6):587-96. PubMed ID: 14585067.
    Abstract:
    Bleomycin is an antibiotic agent with antitumour activity, discovered in 1966 by Umezawa et al. Today, bleomycin is commonly used in chemotherapy for various tumour types. In testicular cancer especially, bleomycin is one of the key drugs in induction chemotherapy. It has the advantage of less myelotoxicity; however, its severe and potentially fatal pulmonary toxicity has limited its dose intensity. Several clinical trials have focused on eliminating bleomycin from the regimen or reducing the bleomycin dose for testicular cancer patients with good prognosis. However, the results indicate that bleomycin is still an essential component of induction chemotherapy when only three courses are administered. This review will focus on bleomycin-induced pulmonary toxicity in chemotherapy for testicular cancer, followed by a brief review of recent basic understanding of the pathogenesis of lung fibrosis.
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