anticancer
adj. against cancer; used in the treatment of cancer | ||||
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Anticancer Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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anticancer
Adjective
1. used in the treatment of cancer; "anticancer drug"; "an antineoplastic effect"
(synonym) antineoplastic, antitumor, antitumour
(pertainym) cancer, malignant neoplastic disease
Adjective
1. used in the treatment of cancer; "anticancer drug"; "an antineoplastic effect"
(synonym) antineoplastic, antitumor, antitumour
(pertainym) cancer, malignant neoplastic disease
Anticancer Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries
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anticancer
Used against or tending to arrest cancer.
Used against or tending to arrest cancer.
Anticancer Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is the use of chemical substances to treat disease. In its modern-day use, it refers to cytotoxic drugs used to treat cancer or the combination of these drugs into a standardized treatment regimen.
In its non-oncological use, the term may also refer to antibiotics (antibacterial chemotherapy). In that sense, the first modern chemotherapeutic agent was Paul Ehrlich's arsphenamine, an arsenic compound discovered in 1909 and used to treat syphilis. This was later followed by sulfonamides discovered by Domagk and penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming.
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