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 • Oct. 28, 2025

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

From Science Magazine • Jun. 6, 2024

In 2019, Thaxton's lab studied a T cell with optimal antitumor function.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2024

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

In laboratory cultures, some cancer cells that possess mutant versions of p53 do not die when challenged by antitumor agents, while those that have normal p53 genes go belly-up.

From Time Magazine Archive