The drug is prescribed to cancer patients with severe myelodepression (leukopenia and thrombocytopenia) caused by cytostatics (mono- or polychemotherapy) or combined chemoradiotherapy.
Deoxynate® can be used prophylactically before the beginning of a cycle of chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy, especially repeated, during or after it. Indication for preventive use of the drug is the presence of leukopenic (less 3,5∙109/ l) and thrombocytopenic (less, 150∙109/l) background before the beginning of specific therapy, expressed leuko- and thrombocytopenia, which developed during the previous cycle of chemo- or chemoradiotherapy. In the case of leukopenia and / or thrombocytopenia,emerged during the course of chemotherapy (chemoradiotherapy) or after its termination, indications for the purpose of the drug is the reduction of the content of leukocytes in the peripheral blood to 2,0∙109/l, thrombocytes - 100∙109/ l and less.
According to experimental data, Deoxynate® is also shown to persons exposed to acute ionizing radiation at doses that cause the development of radiation sickness II-III severity.