Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
The mitomycins are a family of aziridine-containing natural products isolated from Streptomyces caespitosus or Streptomyces lavendulae. One of these compounds mitomycin C finds use as a chemotherapeutic agent by virtue of its antitumour antibiotic activity. It is given intravenously to treat upper gastro-intestinal (e.g. esophageal carcinoma) anal cancers and breast cancers as well as by bladder instillation for superficial bladder tumours.
