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Chemotherapeutic (medicine)


chemotherapeutic
Chemotherapeutic agents are those medications that are used to treat various forms of cancer. These medications are given in a particular regimen over a period of weeks. most chemotherapeutic medications have the ability to directly kill cancer cells. For this same reason, these medications can suppress the bone marrow to some degree, lowering white blood cell counts. This results in a condition known as immunosuppression and can place the patient at an increased risk of infection.

Examples include busulphan, cisplatin, cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, daunorubicin, doxorubicin, melphalan, vincristine, vinblastine and chlorambucil.

See: immunosuppressive agents.


divestiture (iou)



divestiture noun. E17.
[from medieval Latin divestit- pa. ppl stem of divestire: DIVEST: see -URE. Cf. medieval Latin disvestitura.]
Deprivation of a possession or right; dispossession; alienation. E17.
The action of stripping off clothing or getting rid of something. E19.
The process of breaking up a large company by selling off or forcing the sale of subsidiaries; withdrawal of investment. US. M20.