Azacitidine Uses
Azacitidine is used for Cancer
How Azacitidine Works
Azacitidine causes hypomethylation of DNA and is toxic to abnormal hematopoietic cells in bone marrow. Hypomethylation may restore normal function to genes needed for proliferation and differentiation. Drug has little effect on nonproliferating cells.
Common side effects of Azacitidine
Anxiety, Dizziness, Fatigue, Headache, Insomnia, Malaise, Pain, Weakness, Lethargy, Pyrexia, Chest Pain, Edema, Hypotension, Hypertension, Peripheral Swelling
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