Vinblastine
Conditions Treated
Vinblastine has been used in the palliative treatment of the following:
Frequently Responsive Malignancies
- Generalized Hodgkin’s disease (Stages III and IV, Ann Arbor modification of Rye staging system)
- Lymphocytic lymphoma (nodular and diffuse, poorly and well differentiated)
- Histiocytic lymphoma
- Mycosis fungoides (advanced stages)
- Advanced carcinoma of the testis
- Kaposi’s sarcoma
- Letterer-Siwe disease (histiocytosis X)
II. Less Frequently Responsive Malignancies
- Choriocarcinoma resistant to other chemotherapeutic agents
- Carcinoma of the breast, unresponsive to appropriate endocrine surgery and hormonal therapy











