chemotherapeutic
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7.3
- adjective
- /ˌkiːmoʊθəˈrɛpjuːtɪk/
- Specialized
- She received a chemotherapeutic drug to help reduce the size of her tumor.
- chemotherapeutic agents
- chemotherapeutic regimen
- chemotherapeutic drugs
Examples
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Moreover, pre-treating AML cells with functional miR-29b before administration of a chemotherapeutic agent resulted in a significant increase in the anti-leukemic activity of this drug.
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Adaptation of tumor cells to stressors such as hypoxia, starvation, or chemotherapeutic agents underlies the biology of cancer progression.
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HCC is highly resistant to traditional chemotherapeutic strategies.
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In such cases, different chemotherapeutic agents have been utilized singly or in combination.
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Blanchette added that the nanosphere composition can be tailored to deliver specific chemotherapeutic agents.
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We suggest that these insights could be applied to tailor existing chemotherapeutic drugs to rationalize the use of paclitaxel.
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The most commonly used chemotherapeutic agents include doxorubicin, cisplatin, and high-dose methotrexate.
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Second, the persistence of organisms that are resistant to chemotherapeutic agents requires prolonged chemotherapy of active disease, which leads to problems in terms of logistics and compliance.
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Other pharmaceuticals used include Aerosolized Pentamidine Therapy or chemotherapeutic agents such as Adriamycin, Vincristine, or Bleomycin.
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The chemotherapeutic agent, Docetaxel, has demonstrated efficacy in prolonging survival in patients with metastatic CRPC 66.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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4.2
A medicine that helps prevent or treat cancer
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4.6
Stopping or slowing the growth of tumors, especially cancerous ones
Used to describe treatment that uses strong drugs to kill cancer cells
A drug that stops or slows the growth of cancer
Surface Forms
Morphology
chemotherapeutic = chemotherapy (transparent) = chemo + therapy + ic
The adjective is directly formed from 'chemotherapy' with the adjectival suffix '-ic', so its meaning relates straightforwardly to chemotherapy.
Etymology
Chemotherapeutic comes from chemo- meaning 'chemical' and therapeutic meaning 'healing', like the common words chemical and therapy. So chemotherapeutic describes a treatment that uses chemicals to help heal disease, especially cancer.