Typical dosage for Cytarabine
Your treatment team will determine your dose based on your body surface area or body size (BSA, in m2 units), which they’ll calculate from your height and weight.
Cytarabine is also often given with other chemotherapy medications.
The intravenous (IV) dose of cytarabine varies depending on the treatment protocol. For example, a common low-dose treatment dose used in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is 100 mg/m2 per day for 7 days. Sometimes cytarabine is given at higher doses, such as 3000 mg/m2 every 12 hours for 2-3 days.
When cytarabine is given as an intrathecal injection, the dose is usually 5 mg/m2 to 75 mg/m2 daily for 4 days to once every 4 days.
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