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Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 6, 21–22 (1 January 2007) | doi:10.1038/nrd2227

Vorinostat

Steven Grant , Chris Easley & Peter Kirkpatrick

Vorinostat (Zolinza; Merck) was approved by the US FDA in October 2006 for the treatment of cutaneous manifestations in patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma who have progressive, persistent or recurrent disease on or following two systemic therapies. It is the first in a new class of anticancer agents that inhibit histone deacetylases, which have a key role in the epigenetic regulation of gene expression.