Overview
Differentiation therapy acts on leukemic cells in a manner different from standard chemotherapy. Where most drugs have a toxic effect on leukemic cells, differentiation therapy drugs induce the cells to resume their normal life cycle and mature and differentiate, rather than remain as immature blast cells. Tretinoin, a drug used to treat some forms of leukemia, acts in this way.
The information on the following drugs is selective. Other side effects may occur. Notify your doctor or nurse if you have any symptoms.
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Arsenic Trioxide
Tretinoin Also Known As:
Vesanoid, Retin-A
