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