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carboplatin
(redirected from Paraplatin)

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carboplatin [¦kär·bō′plat·ən]
(medicine)
A platinum coordination compound and anticancer agent used for advanced gynecologic malignancies, especially ovarian tumors, and for head and neck cancers and lung cancers.


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Chemotherapy drugs will experience generic erosion and three major chemotherapy drugs go off patent before 2012; Aventis' Taxotere (docetaxel), Bristol-Myers Squibb's Paraplatin (carboplatin) and Eli Lilly's Gemzar (gemcitabine).
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nbsp;therapy was reduced by approximately 20% due to generic availability of Paraplatin, the branded drug.
 
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