chemotherapeutic
- noun
- /ˌkɛməʊθəˈrɛpjuːtɪk/
- Specialized
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fármaco quimioterapéutico
- Doctors often prescribe chemotherapeutic agents to help treat various types of cancer.
Examples
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What genes modify the response of cancer cells to chemotherapeutic agents or targeted therapies?
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They have a transporter that's pumping out chemotherapeutic agents out of the cell.
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And you can see all these connections between different cancer chemotherapeutics, different cancer cell lines and and potential targets.
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That's why so many chemotherapeutics really aren't have such bad GI effects.
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CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS
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Many patients receive chemotherapeutics during their battle against serious illnesses like cancer.
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Research has shown that new chemotherapeutic drugs can improve survival rates in cancer patients.
Synonyms
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A medicine that treats cancer by killing or stopping cancer cells
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A medicine that kills cells and helps treat cancer during chemotherapy
A drug that stops or kills cancer cells, usually given in chemotherapy
A drug that stops or slows the growth of cancer
How Effective
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Surface Forms
Morphology
chemotherapeutic = therapeutic (semi-transparent) = chemo + therapeut + ic
Adding chemo- to therapeutic is a straightforward prefixation, though the result is a technical medical term.
Etymology
Chemotherapeutic comes from chemo- 'chemical' and therapeutic 'healing', the same parts you find in chemical and therapy. So a chemotherapeutic is a chemical medicine or drug used to treat cancer.