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

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antitumor

The researchers now want to determine which genes are primarily responsible for the antitumor effects seen in the experiments.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 6, 2024

Even more promising, when the researchers combined their modified T cells with a type of immunotherapy called immune checkpoint blockade, they further increased antitumor activity.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2023

The monoclonal antibody bevacizumab gained regulatory approval in 2004 for patients with advanced colon cancer, and more than a dozen other angiogenesis inhibitors have since joined the antitumor arsenal.

From Science Magazine ● May 16, 2023

Fifteen years before my diagnosis, Allison and his colleagues from the UC Berkeley Cancer Research Laboratory published a landmark paper on the role of a protein receptor called CTLA-4 in "antitumor immunity."

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2018