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thi·o·te·pa

 (thī′ō-tē′pə, -tĕp′ə)
n.
A crystalline compound, C6H12N3PS, a sulfur-containing analog of tepa, used to treat certain malignant tumors.
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thiotepa

(ˌθaɪəˈtiːpə)
n
(Pharmacology) a drug, C6H12N3PS, used in chemotherapy to destroy cancer or neoplastic cells
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Noun1.thiotepa - an antineoplastic drug used to treat certain malignancies
antineoplastic, antineoplastic drug, cancer drug - any of several drugs that control or kill neoplastic cells; used in chemotherapy to kill cancer cells; all have unpleasant side effects that may include nausea and vomiting and hair loss and suppression of bone marrow function
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The study utilized a lentiviral vector containing the human beta-globin gene and a conditioning protocol with treosulfan and thiotepa. The data presented today and included in this release were analyzed as of April 2019.
Their results support that in NMIBC, intravesical BCG therapy for variant histology has better prognosis in terms of progression and cancer-specific survival than other intravesical treatments (mitomycin C and thiotepa) with no need for additional treatment.
Busulfan, melphalan, or alkylating agents such as thiotepa, especially in the autologous setting, are among the risk factors for the late onset SOS (49,50).
reported 17 patients with PTCLs using a fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and thiotepa as RIC regimen.[28] Estimated 3-year cumulative PFS and OS rates were 64% and 81%, respectively, and the 2-year cumulative non-relapse mortality rate was only 6%.[28] Although this result is specially encouraging, the limited patients and heterogeneity of lymphomas make it very difficult to evaluate the role of the intensity in conditioning regimen.
Thiotepa was first used in 1961 for this purpose, and mitomycin C and doxorubicin became available in time (9).
This vigorous multi-modality regimen showed improved survival rate over conventional therapy.3 Ferreri et al., based their phase II trial on MATILDE regimen which included high dose methotrexate combined with CNS penetrating chemotherapeutic agents (cytarabine, idarubicin and thiotepa) followed by response tailored radiotherapy.
High-dose busulfan, melphalan and thiotepa followed by autologous peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) rescue in patients with advanced stage III-IV ovarian cancer.
It has been reported that a GST inhibitor (ethacrynic acid, EA) combined with alkylating agents (Chl and thiotepa) for the treatment of tumor showed some success [91].