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. 2012 Jun 11;2012:927683. doi: 10.1155/2012/927683

Table 1.

External Fragile Site-Inducing/Enhancing Agents.

Agents Applications References
Dietary and environmental
 Atenolol Hypertension drug [74]
 Benzene Cigarette smoke, gasoline, pesticides, food, water [75]
 Caffeine Dietary agent [76, 77]
 Carbon tetrachloride Refrigerants, pesticides [75]
 Cigarette smoke Dietary and environmental agent [78, 79]
 Diethylnitrosamine Cigarette smoke, pesticides, food, beverage [75]
 Dimethyl sulfate Dyes, drugs, perfumes, pesticides [75]
 Ethanol Dietary agent [80, 81]
 Hypoxia Low oxygen, tumor microenvironment [82]
 Pesticides Dietary and environmental agent [8385]

Chemotherapeutics
 5-Azacytidine Myelodysplastic syndrome, leukemia [75]
 Actinomycin D Sarcoma, Wilms' tumor, germ cell, testicular, Melanoma, neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma [75]
 Bleomycin Squamous cell, melanoma, sarcoma, testicular, Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma [75]
 Busulfan Chronic myelogenous leukemia [75]
 Camptothecin Colon, rectal [86]
 Chlorambucil Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, breast, ovarian, testicular [75]
 Cytosine arabinoside Leukemia, lymphoma [75]
 Floxuridine Colon, kidney, stomach [75]
 Methotrexate Breast, head and neck, lung, stomach, esophageal, sarcoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, acute lymphoblastic leukemia [75]