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chemotherapeutic

adj

Etymology

From chemo- + therapeutic.

  1. derived from θεραπευτικός — “attentive, helpful, obliging, curative”
  2. derived from therapeuticus
  3. derived from terapeucia
  4. prefixed as chemotherapeutic — “chemo + therapeutic”

Definitions

  1. Of or having to do with chemotherapy.

    • But for a vast majority of cancers, more intensive regimens of standard chemotherapeutic drugs did not necessarily mean more survival.

  2. A chemical agent used in chemotherapy

    • Several novel chemotherapeutics that target specific signaling pathways are now available as anti-cancer agents including EGFR inhibitors and rapamycin.

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