How is it used?

Before taking

While taking

Warnings

Your doctor has ordered the drug vincristine to help treat your illness. The drug is given by injection into a vein.

This medication is used to treat:

• leukemia
• Hodgkin's disease
• non-Hodgkin's lymphomas
• neuroblastoma
• rhabdomyosarcoma
• Wilms' tumor
• Kaposi's sarcoma related to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)

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

Vincristine is in a class of drugs known as vinca alkaloids. It slows or stops the growth of cancer cells in your body. The length of treatment depends on the types of drugs you are taking, how well your body responds to them, and the type of cancer you have.

Vincristine is also used to treat some types of sarcoma, small cell lung cancer, osteogenic sarcoma, Ewing's sarcoma, Burkitt's lymphoma, brain medulloblastoma, multiple myeloma, idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura, and autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Talk to your doctor about the possible risks of using this drug for your condition.

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