The NCI Drug Dictionary contains technical definitions and synonyms for drugs/agents
used to treat patients with cancer or conditions related to cancer. Each drug entry
includes links to check for clinical trials listed in NCI's PDQ® Cancer Clinical
Trials Registry.
Tips on Looking Up a Drug
- In the search box, type the name or part of the name of the drug/agent you are looking
for and click the “Go” button.
- You can use the generic name (e.g., doxorubicin), U.S. brand names (e.g., Rubex),
NSC number, chemical structure names, or other names to find the drug.
- Click on a letter of the alphabet to browse through the dictionary or click on "All"
to see a listing of all drugs in the dictionary.
- Change the search from "Starts with" to "Contains" to find all drugs in the dictionary
that include a word or set of letters or numbers (e.g., "rubicin" to find daunorubicin,
doxorubicin, and epirubicin).
- Use the
icon to get more help.
- The search box has an autosuggest feature. When you type three
or more letters, a list of up to 10 suggestions will pop up below the box. Click
on a suggestion with your mouse or use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move through
the suggestions and then hit the Enter key to choose one.
- Using the Escape key or clicking "close" within the autosuggest box closes the box
and turns off the feature until you start a new search.
- Some drug entries include a
button that links to a drug information summary page.
Information in the NCI Drug Dictionary is from the
NCI Thesaurus, which is produced by NCI's Enterprise Vocabulary Services,
a collaboration involving NCI's Office of Communications and Education and NCI's Center for Bioinformatics.
Each drug entry includes a link to additional information available from the full
NCI Thesaurus database, which contains many drugs and other terms not included here.
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