US cancer drug specialist Spectrum Pharmaceuticals has received Food and Drug Administration approval to market levoleucovorin for the treatment of osteosarcoma. Specifically, the drug has been cleared as a treatment for the disease following high-dose methotrexate therapy, and to diminish the toxicity of impaired methotrexate elimination or inadvertent overdose of folic acid antagonists.
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