valrubicin

valrubicin
val·ru·bi·cin (val-rooґbĭ-sin″) an antineoplastic that interferes with various interrelated biological functions, most involving nucleic acid metabolism; it inhibits incorporation of nucleosides into nucleic acids, causes chromosomal damage, and arrests the cell cycle in the G2 phase. Administered intravesically for treatment of bladder carcinoma.

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