Altretamine

Active ingredient description

Altretamine is an antineoplastic agent. It is indicated for use as a single agent in the palliative treatment of patients with persistent or recurrent ovarian cancer following first-line therapy with cisplatin and/or alkylating agent-based combination. It is not considered a first-line treatment, but it can be useful as salvage therapy.

Medicine classification

This medicinal substance has been classified in the anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) classification according to its main therapeutic use as follows:

ATC code
Group title
Classification
Altretamine
L Antineoplastic and immunomodulating agents → L01 Antineoplastic agents → L01X Other antineoplastic agents → L01XX Other antineoplastic agents
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Medicines

Altretamine is the active ingredient of these drugs:

Drug
Countries

France

Structural formula

Graphic representation of the active ingredient's molecular structure

Chemical formula: C₉H₁₈N₆
Molecular mass: 210.279 g/mol

External identifiers

CAS Substance: 645-05-6
DrugBank Drug: DB00488
PubChem Compound: 2123
RxNorm Ingredient: 5296
SNOMED-CT Concept: 387385000
Altretamine (substance)
UNII Identifier: Q8BIH59O7H
ALTRETAMINE