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Question:

Other Therapy: What code is used to represent treatment with "Epithilone" or "Epothilone"?

Discussion:

Answer:

Code the Other Cancer-Directed Therapy field to 2 [Other experimental cancer-directed therapy (not included elsewhere)], until the exact mechanism of action is determined for this drug. This drug is in phase I clinical trials. It has a similar action to Taxol, but is derived from a different source.

Cancer Site Category:

N/A

Data Item Category:

Other therapy

Other Category:

N/A

Year:

2002