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

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

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

Two companies are already planning to test the antitumor proteins in people.

From Time Magazine Archive