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chemotherapeutic

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chemotherapeutic
adjective Referring to a chemotherapeutic agent, effect or regimen noun Chemotherapeutic agent, see there


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If we could turn down the metabolic activity of normal tissue, reducing its sensitivity to chemotherapeutic drugs, while the cancer cells remained vulnerable, chemotherapy would simultaneously become less toxic and more effective.
The APF530 Phase 3 pivotal trial protocol includes a total of approximately 1,350 patients, about half of which will receive moderately emetogenic chemotherapeutic agents with the other half receiving highly emetogenic chemotherapeutic agents.
Researchers from the National Cancer Institute and six cancer hospitals in the United States and Italy report that the risk of bone cancer among survivors of a variety of childhood cancers rises sharply with increasing exposure to radiation or certain chemotherapeutic agents, reaching 40-fold at some of the highest doses used.
 
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