How is it used?

Before taking

While taking

Your doctor has ordered the drug thioguanine to help treat your illness. The drug can be taken by mouth in tablet form.

This medication is used to treat:

• leukemia

This medication is sometimes prescribed for other uses; ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.

Thioguanine belongs to a class of medications known as antimetabolites. It resembles a normal cell nutrient needed by cancer cells to grow. The cancer cells take up thioguanine, which then interferes with their growth.

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