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Article: Cancer-causing drug safe and effective in treating eye disease.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- March 5, 2002
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2002 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ophthalmologists at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago (UIC) have found a highly effective treatment for uveitis, a potentially blinding inflammation of the uvea, the pigmented layers of the eye.
In patients with intractable, sight-threatening, noninfectious uveitis, the drug chlorambucil, a chemotherapeutic agent known to cause cancer in some patients when dispensed long-term, was found effective in alleviating inflammation when administered in high doses for a short time.
The design of the study was a chart review of 53 patients who had been treated at the medical center with high-dose, ...