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ANTICANCER
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used in the treatment of cancer
Example:
an antineoplastic effect
Synonyms:
anticancer; antineoplastic; antitumor; antitumour
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
cancer (any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream)
Context examples:
Methods of investigating the effectiveness of anticancer cytotoxic drugs and biologic inhibitors.
(Antitumor Drug Screening Assay, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
It may kill cancer cells by carrying an anticancer drug into the tumor.
(AP5346, NCI Dictionary)
A drug that helps protect the kidneys and bladder from the toxic effects of anticancer drugs such as ifosfamide and cyclophosphamide.
(Mesna, NCI Dictionary)
A hormonal anticancer drug that is also used in cancer prevention.
(Medroxyprogesterone, NCI Dictionary)
It may also be done to look at the kidney using an endoscope (thin, lighted tube attached to a camera), to place anticancer drugs directly into the kidney, or to remove kidney stones.
(Nephrostomy, NCI Dictionary)
It is also used in patients who have not gotten better after treatment with other anticancer drugs or who are not able to take imatinib mesylate.
(Nilotinib, NCI Dictionary)
Paraplatin is a form of the anticancer drug cisplatin and causes fewer side effects in patients.
(Paraplatin, NCI Dictionary)
A substance that is being studied for its ability to increase the effectiveness of the anticancer drug fluorouracil.
(PALA, NCI Dictionary)
This activates interferon-mediated signal transduction pathways and induces the transcription and translation of genes with interferon-specific response elements (ISREs); the protein products mediate antiviral, antiproliferative, anticancer, and immune-modulating effects.
(PEG-Proline-Interferon Alfa-2b, NCI Thesaurus)
Interferons alfa bind to specific cell-surface receptors, leading to the transcription and translation of genes whose protein products mediate antiviral, antiproliferative, anticancer and immune-modulating effects.
(Peginterferon alfa-2a, NCI Thesaurus)
