Gliadel Wafer

Pronunciation

A biodegradable wafer that is used to deliver the anticancer drug carmustine directly into a brain tumor site after the tumor has been removed by surgery. Also called polifeprosan 20 carmustine implant. (NCI Dictionary)

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