Pentostatin (or deoxycoformycin, trade name Nipent, manufactured by SuperGen) is an anticancer chemotherapeutic drug.

[2] It is classified as a purine analog, which is a type of antimetabolite.

Additionally, pentostatin has been used to treat steroid-refractory acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease.

[5] Pentostatin is also used in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients who have relapsed.

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