ANTITUMOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antitumor mean? 

• ANTITUMOR (adjective)
  The adjective ANTITUMOR has 1 sense:

1. used in the treatment of cancer

  Familiarity information: ANTITUMOR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTITUMOR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used in the treatment of cancer

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

anticancer; antineoplastic; antitumor; antitumour

Context example:

an antineoplastic effect

Pertainym:

tumor (an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose)

 Context examples 

LPS has been shown to stimulate the host humoral immune response and induce the release of various antitumor cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukin-12 (IL-12).

(Mixed Bacteria Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

An orally available, highly water-soluble lysine prodrug of the synthetic small molecule BAL27862 with potential antitumor activity.

(Microtubule-targeted Agent BAL101553, NCI Thesaurus)

A measure proposed by Wolchok et al. (Clin Cancer Res 2009;15:7412-7420) to determine the extent of an antitumor response to a particular immunotherapeutic agent.

(Modified Overall Immune Related Response Criterion, NCI Thesaurus)

The evaluation of the antitumor response shows a complete disappearance of all lesions (whether measurable or not) and no new lesions.

(Modified Overall Immune Related Response Criterion, Complete Remission, NCI Thesaurus)

The evaluation of the antitumor response shows that the sum of the longest diameters of target and new measurable lesions has decreased by at least 30%.

(Modified Overall Immune Related Response Criterion, Partial Response, NCI Thesaurus)

An arabinoxylane polysaccharide composed of the hemicellulose-Beta extract of rice bran, treated with enzymes from Shiitake mushrooms, that exerts antitumor and antiviral activity by increasing the level of natural killer cells activation.

(MGN3, NCI Thesaurus)

A second-generation, mixed-backbone, phosphorothioate antisense oligonucleotide (ODN) with potential antitumor activity.

(MG 98, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called anticancer antibiotic and antitumor antibiotic.

(Antineoplastic antibiotic, NCI Dictionary)

Also called antineoplastic antibiotic and antitumor antibiotic.

(Anticancer antibiotic, NCI Dictionary)

For these experiments, the research team expanded the antitumor T cells in the presence of a drug called dimethyloxaloylglycine (DMOG), which blocks the activity of PHD proteins.

(Oxygen can impair cancer immunotherapy in mice, NIH)