busulfan
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of busulfan
1955–60; bu(tanediol dimethane) sulf(onate) its chemical name + -an perhaps originally variant of -ane
Example Sentences
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Each received one intravenous dose of the antibody 12 days before their transplant, followed by standard immune-suppressing medication but no busulfan or radiation.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2025
"Specifically, we could eliminate the use of radiation and genotoxic chemotherapy called busulfan, with exceptional outcomes."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2025
If not, then busulfan is the likely culprit.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2021
But there is also the likelihood that both cancers were caused by a powerful drug, busulfan, which is used to clear bone marrow in order to make space for new cells modified by gene therapy.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2021
Tilly's group does have at least one indication that humans have something similar going on: women treated with busulfan almost always experience premature menopause, compared with fewer than half of women taking other cancer drugs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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