Talk:Pentostatin

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Mechanism

I'm not sure that the mechanism is right here. Pento is primarily used for hairy cell leukemia, and I think that those cells are more "long-lived" than "rapidly dividing". If so, it's the purine's interference with RNA that's relevant. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:37, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

question?

Is pentostatin a statin? 96.255.150.237 (talk) 16:44, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]