title: [Experience with using carminomycin in oncological clinical practice].
abstract: Carminomycin is an original antitumor antibiotic from the anthracycline group isolated at the Institute of New Antibiotics (USSR) in 1973. Pharmacological investigation of carminomycin revealed its satisfactory absorption from the gastrointestinal tract which proved to be a distinguishing property of the antibiotic as compared to other anthracyclines such as adriamycin and rubomycin. The clinical trials of carminomycin showed that it was mainly active against soft tissue sarcoma and breast cancer, lymphosarcoma, neuroblastoma, Wilms' tumor and Ewing's sarcoma in children, as well as acute leukemia. Various regimens for the antibiotic administration were applied: short-term, single and long-term. Suppression of hemopoiesis was considered as a limiting toxic effect. By the data available carminomycin had lower cardiotoxicity as compared with rubomycin and adriamycin. Development of oral carminomycin is believed promising.
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Gorbunova
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy; D002360:Carubicin / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use* / Q000633:toxicity; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000188:drug therapy; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000188:drug therapy; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy; D009396:Wilms Tumor / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D002360:Carubicin
vernacular_title: Opyt klinicheskogo primeneniia karminomitsina v onkologicheskoĭ praktike.