Adriamycin

[ ey-dree-uh-mahy-sin ]

Pharmacology, Trademark.

1. a brand of doxorubicin.

Example Sentences

When my younger sister, Tessa, was dying of cancer, I sat by her hospital bedside for hours, holding her hand, watching the play of sunlight on her pale face as the bright red bag of poisonous Adriamycin chemotherapy treatment dripped into her veins.

From Washington Post

For example, a 48-year-old female patient with history of lymphoma had received a cardiotoxic drug—doxorubicin, also known as Adriamycin—about 20 years earlier for breast cancer.

From Scientific American

In approximately 60 hours, and for the second time, Adriamycin will be infused into my body through a plastic port surgically implanted into my chest and connected to my jugular vein.

From The Guardian

In order to administer the medicine, the oncology nurse, after checking the prescription with a partner, must dress in an elaborate protective costume and slowly, personally, push the Adriamycin through the port in my chest.

From The Guardian

Adriamycin is sometimes fatal to the heart, and has a lifetime limit, of which, by the end of this treatment, I will have reached half.

From The Guardian