anti-tumour
adjective
UK(alsoantitumour);(USanti-tumor)uk/ˌæn.tiˈtʃuː.mər/us/ˌæn.taɪˈtuː.mɚ/used totreatorworkingagainst atumour(= amassofdiseasedcellsin thebody):
Muchresearchis being done onmistletoeas an anti-cancer and anti-tumourherb.
Little isknownabout thelong-termeffectsof this antitumourtreatment.
- Studies havesuggestedthatteamay have anti-tumoureffects.
- Themechanismsof antitumouractionare notcompletelyunderstood.
- Taxol is an antitumouragentisolatedfrom thebarkof theyewtree.
Cancer
- acinic cell carcinoma
- acral lentiginous melanoma
- aggressive
- aggressively
- aggressiveness
- brachytherapy
- brain tumour
- cancerous
- carcinogen
- carcinogenesis
- carcinogenic
- carcinoid
- inoperable
- metastatic
- myeloma
- neoplasia
- neoplasm
- neoplastic
- oncogene
- sarcoma
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See also
anti-tumoural