506U78

English

Etymology

From the Burroughs Wellcome internal catalog number "506U", which was extended to the unified catalog number "506U78" due the 1995 merger to form Glaxo Wellcome a few months after the drug's discovery.

Noun

506U78 (uncountable)

1. Former designation of Nelarabine; a chemotherapy prodrug used in treatment of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Alternative forms

• GW506U78

Further reading

• 506U78 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia