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n. - Antineoplastic drug (trade name Alkeran) used to treat multiple myeloma and some other malignancies.

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  • A chemotherapy medicine called melphalan is used to treat patients, but carries serious side effects.
  • She did not report any grade 3 cardiac events in the patients on melphalan.
  • The trial uses the drug melphalan to treat patients with metastatic melanoma in the liver.
  • Peripheral neuropathy was reported in 5% of the melphalan patients and 9% of the thalidomide patients.
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