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Definition of Chemotherapeutic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to chemotherapy.

Definition of Chemotherapeutic

1. Adjective. (medicine oncology) Of or having to do with chemotherapy. ¹

2. Noun. (medicine oncology) A chemical agent used in chemotherapy ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Chemotherapeutic

1. Chemotherapeutic agents are those medications that are used to treat various forms of cancer. These medications are given in a particular regimen over a period of weeks. most chemotherapeutic medications have the ability to directly kill cancer cells. For this same reason, these medications can suppress the bone marrow to some degree, lowering white blood cell counts. This results in a condition known as immunosuppression and can place the patient at an increased risk of infection. Examples include busulphan, cisplatin, cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, daunorubicin, doxorubicin, melphalan, vincristine, vinblastine and chlorambucil. See: immunosuppressive agents. (27 Sep 1997)

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Literary usage of Chemotherapeutic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"chemotherapeutic EXPERIMENTS ON RAT TUMORS. By RICHARD WEIL. From the Huntington Fund for Cancer Research and the Department of Experimental Medicine of the ..."

2. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1915)
"In order to produce either of the above, it is necessary for the chemotherapeutic agent to enter the diseased tissues in concentrations sufficient to ..."

3. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"In fact, the position now is that the primary consideration in recommending any chemotherapeutic agent for use in the treatment of white scours is that it ..."

4. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The chemotherapeutic study of one bacterial infection does not justify one in drawing conclusions regarding another. Nevertheless the experiments here ..."

5. Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the by United States Public Health Service (1915)
"( Toxicity and chemotherapeutic action of the heavy metals.—A systematic study of the toxicity of various organic preparations of the heavy metals was in ..."

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