antitumor

American  

[an-tee-too-mer, an-tahy-too-mer] / ˌæn tiˈtu mər, ˌæn taɪˈtu mər /

adjective

1. (of medication or other therapies) designed to prevent, shrink, or slow the growth of cancerous tumors.

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Other Word Forms

• antitumoral adjective
• antitumorous adjective

Example Sentences

Simply stimulating the immune system, similar to how it responds to a virus, could be enough to generate an antitumor effect.

From Science Daily

By pairing their experimental "nonspecific" mRNA vaccine with immune checkpoint inhibitors -- common cancer drugs that help the immune system recognize and destroy tumors -- the researchers observed a powerful antitumor response in mice.

From Science Daily

That elicits a strong antitumor immune response, but it is short lived.

From Science Magazine

"We also increased the number of allowable HER2-CAR T infusions to sustain the exposure time of CAR T cells, with the goal of increasing the antitumor effect," Hegde said.

From Science Daily

In a publication in Cancer Immunology Research, Hurst and Thaxton used a proteomics screen to identify enzymes associated with the optimal antitumor metabolism of these T cells.

From Science Daily