Oral Cancer Drugs Not Effective When Mixed With Some Other Medications - MediLexicon

Oral Cancer Drugs Not Effective When Mixed With Some Other Medications - MediLexicon

...........The cancer drugs which the researchers studied are called oral kinase inhibitors. They included:

• imatinib (Gleevec®)
• erlotinib (Tarceva®)
• dasatinib (Sprycel®)
• everolimus (Afinitor®)
• lapatinib (Tykerb®)
• nilotinib (Tasigna®)
• pazopanib (Votrient®)
• sorafenib (Nexavar®)
• sunitinib (Sutent®)

The medications that pose a threat to the effectiveness of oncology drugs are:

• calcium channel blockers
• some antibiotics
• antifungal agents
• steroids
• proton pump inhibitors..........