chemotherapeutic

English

Etymology

chemo- +‎ therapeutic

Adjective

chemotherapeutic (not comparable)

1. (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

• chemotherapeutic agent
• chemotherapeutically
• immunochemotherapeutic
• nonchemotherapeutic
• photochemotherapeutic
• polychemotherapeutic
• postchemotherapeutic
• prechemotherapeutic
• radiochemotherapeutic

 

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)

1. (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^[1], →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