A medical laboratory scientist (MLS), clinical laboratory scientist (CLS) medical laboratory technologist (MLT), is a healthcare professional who performs chemical, hematological, immunologic, histopathological, cytopathological, microscopic, and bacteriological diagnostic analyses on body fluids such as blood, urine, sputum, stool, cerebrospinal ...
BRAND NAME: Halaven. DRUG CLASS AND MECHANISM: Eribulin mesylate is a chemotherapeutic medicine approved to treat metastatic breast cancer, an advanced form of breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.RESCRIBED FOR: Eribulin is a prescription chemotherapy medicine used to treat patients with metastatic breast cancer. Eribulin should only be used in patients who have already received at least 2 other types of anti-cancer medicines, including an anthracycline and a taxane.
The mesylate salt was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on November 15, 2010, to treat patients with metastatic breast cancer who have received at least two prior chemotherapy regimens for late-stage disease, including both anthracycline-and taxane-based chemotherapies.ribulin is also being investigated by Eisai Co. for use in a variety of other solid tumors, including non-small cell lung cancer, prostate cancer and sarcoma. Eribulin is also known as E7389 and ER-086526, and also carries the US NCI designation NSC-707389.