Thalidomide vs Lenalidomide - What's the difference?
thalidomide | lenalidomide |
(pharmaceutical drug) oxopiperidin-3-yl)-1H-isoindole-1,3(2H)dione — C13H10N2[[oxygen, O4 — A drug that was sold during the late 1950s and 1960s as a sleeping aid, and to pregnant women as an antiemetic to combat morning sickness and other symptoms, but was withdrawn after being proven to cause severe birth defects, such as phocomelia; currently used to treat leprosy.
(medicine) A derivative of thalidomide used to treat some myelomas