NOUN
- a drug (trade name Purinethol) that interferes with the metabolism of purine and is used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia
How To Use Purinethol In A Sentence
- Take the anticancer drug Purinethol: A variant in agene called TPMT causes one in 300 childhood leukemia patients to suffer life-threatening side effects from the med. 15th Anniversary: DNA-Customized Medicine Still Stuck in the Pipeline