chemotherapeutic

English

Etymology

chemo- +‎ therapeutic

Adjective

chemotherapeutic (not comparable)

(medicine, oncology) Of or having to do with chemotherapy.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 232:
  But for a vast majority of cancers, more intensive regimens of standard chemotherapeutic drugs did not necessarily mean more survival.

Derived terms

chemotherapeutically
chemotherapeutic agent

Translations

of or having to do with chemotherapy

Catalan: quimioterapèutic m, quimioterapèutica f
Czech: chemoterapeutický
French: chimiothérapeutique (fr) m or f
Galician: quimioterapéutico m, quimioterapéutica f
German: chemotherapeutisch
Italian: chemioterapeutico m, chemioterapeutica f
Portuguese: quimioterapêutico m, quimioterapêutica f
Spanish: quimioterapéutico

Noun

chemotherapeutic (plural chemotherapeutics)

(medicine, oncology) A chemical agent used in chemotherapy
- 2005, Michael G. Goggins, “The Molecular Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer”, in Von Hoff et al., editors, Pancreatic Cancer‎, →ISBN, page 260:
  Several novel chemotherapeutics that target specific signaling pathways are now available as anti-cancer agents including EGFR inhibitors and rapamycin.

Coordinate terms

pharmacotherapeutic

Translations

chemical agent

Czech: chemoterapeutikum n
German: Chemotherapeutikum n
Spanish: quimioterápico m

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