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NCI Expand Drugs By Letter

Browse the NCI Drug Dictionary by first letter. Returns all cancer drugs and drug aliases starting with the specified letter. Each result includes the drug name, preferred name, type (DrugTerm or DrugAlias), and a pretty URL name for detailed lookups. Useful for discovering cancer drugs alphabetically or finding all drugs starting with a specific letter. Use NCI_get_drug_by_name with the prettyUrlName to get full details.

Livelast probed 2026-05-01 01:00Z· 510msCortexa

Status

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Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 510ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "from": {
      "default": 0,
      "description": "Offset for pagination (default: 0)",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "letter": {
      "description": "First letter to browse by (a-z, or '#' for drugs starting with numbers/special characters)",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "size": {
      "default": 100,
      "description": "Number of results per page (default: 100, max: 10000)",
      "type": "integer"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "letter"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default NCI Expand Drugs By Letter call

public-safeinput

{
  "from": 1,
  "letter": "",
  "size": 1
}

Expected response keys: success

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Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_NCI_expand_drugs_by_letter
Tool name: NCI_expand_drugs_by_letter
Added: 2026-05-01 00:58Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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