Anthracycline anticancer drug

A chemotherapy agent used to treat breast cancer in women who have had breast surgery and have evidence that the cancer has spread to lymph nodes under the arms.

Brand name, Ellence. Drug used to treat early stage breast cancer after breast surgery in patients whose cancer has spread to the axillary lymph nodes.

An anticancer drug that belongs to the family of drugs called antitumor antibiotics.

Epirubicin (marketed by Pfizer under the trade name Ellence®) is an anthracycline drug used for chemotherapy. Similarly to other anthracyclines, it acts by intercalating DNA strands.