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Podcast: The ONS Podcast
Episode: Episode 296: Pharmacology 101: Anthracyclines and Other Antitumor Antibiotics
Description: "The search for daunorubicin's sister really led to this discovery of doxorubicin, which is an analog with much greater activity. The discovery of doxorubicin can be coined kind of as, 'one of the best drugs born in Milan, Italy.' And after that, a few analogs were developed and tested, and two that we currently use today, are idarubicin and epirubicin," Puja Patel, PharmD, BCOP, clinical oncology pharmacist at the Delnor Hospital Northwestern Medicine Cancer Center in Geneva, IL, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BS, AOCNS®, manager of oncology nursing practice at ONS, during a discussion about anthracyclines and o...