Cyclophosphamide (brand names: Endoxan, Cytoxan, Neosar, Procytox, Revimmune) is a chemotherapy medication prescribed to treat various types of cancer, as a rule breast, ovary and bladder cancer, chronic lymphocytic, leukaemia. Cyclophosphamide slows or stops the growth of cancer cells and is often used in combination with other cytotoxic medicines.

On this website we will try to to provide as much information on cyclophosphamide as possible. Remember that you should take  cyclophosphamide only if your healthcare probider prescribes it to you. Take cyclophosphamide exactly as directed by your doctor.

Cyclophosphamide has relatively little chemotherapy toxicity and most patients who take cyclophosphamide do not experience serious side effects, but still it is important to remember that chemotherapy drugs affect healthy cells as well as cancer cells. As a result, it is common that the patients may feel unwell during chemotherapy. Cyclophosphamide affects the immune system as well. But cancer is a critical disease when the primary purpose is to stop the growth of cancer cells. In this situation possible side effects can be of minor importance. The benefit-to-risk assessment for use of cyclophosphamide should be done by health care professionals only!

Start taking cyclophosphamide only if your doctor prescribes to do so. Report any changes in your health condition or side effects you observe to your doctor immediately. Don’t stop the course of treatment with cyclophosphamide even if you feel unwell until the doctor tells to do so. Never share cyclophosphamide with other people if they don’t have a prescription from their cancer professional.
Cyclophosphamide is also used to treat autoimmune diseases, for example some complications of rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, some forms of vasculitis, myopathies, systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) and prevent rejection of transplant tissues.

The information on this website is not meant to be a substitute professional medival advice.