CancerQuest | Treatments for Side Effects

Treatment for Side Effects

Below is a table of drugs used to treat side effects discussed in this website. To go directly to the page where a particular drug is discussed, click on the name. For an explanation of the type of drug, click on the side effect it treats. If you have trouble finding a particular drug, go to edit on your browser and use the Find on Page feature.

Generic Name	Brand Name (all trademarked by their respective manufacturers)	Used to Treat
Acetaminophen	Tylenol	Pain
Aprepitant	Emend	Nausea
Aspirin	Bayer, Excedrin, Others	Pain (NSAID)
Celecoxib	Celebrex	Pain (COX2)
Codeine	Tylenol-3, Others	Pain (Opiate)
Dalteparin	Fragmin	Blood Clots
Darbepoetin Alfa	Aranesp	Anemia
Dexrazoxane Hydrochloride	Totect	Tissue Damage
Diphenoxylate and Atropine	Lomotil, Lonox	Diarrhea
Dolasetron mesylate	Anzemet	Nausea
Epoetin Alfa	Procrit, Epogen	Anemia
Fentanyl	Duragesic, Others	Pain (Opiate)
Filgrastim	Neupogen	Neutropenia
Granisetron hydrochloride	Kytril	Nausea
Hydrocodone	Lortab, Maxidone, Norco, Vicodin, Vicoprofen, Zydone	Pain (Opiate)
Hydromorphone	Dilaudid	Pain (Opiate)
Ibuprofen	Advil, Motrin, Others	Pain (NSAID)
Loperamide	Imodium	Diarrhea
Merperidine	Demerol	Pain (Opiate)
Methadone	Dolophine, Methadose	Pain (Opiate)
Morphine	Duramorph, Others	Pain (Opiate)
Ondansetron	Zofran	Nausea
Oxycodone	OxyContin, Percodan, Percocet, Percolone, Roxicodone	Pain (Opiate)
Pamidronate disodium	Aredia	Hypercalcemia

More information on these drugs can be found at the FDA Approved Over the Counter and Prescription Drugs website and/or the Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine Online. This site is only available to those with a subscription. A hardcopy version of book is available from McGraw Hill Publishers

More information on this topic may be found in Chapter 16 of The Biology of Cancer by Robert A. Weinberg.