chemotherapeutic

From chemo- +‎ therapeutic.

chemotherapeutic (not comparable)

1. (medicine, oncology) Of or having to do with chemotherapy.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 232:

     But for a vast majority of cancers, more intensive regimens of standard chemotherapeutic drugs did not necessarily mean more survival.

chemotherapeutic (plural chemotherapeutics)

1. (medicine, oncology) A chemical agent used in chemotherapy
   • 2005, Michael G. Goggins, “The Molecular Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer”, in Von Hoff et al., editors, Pancreatic Cancer‎^[1], →ISBN, page 260:

     Several novel chemotherapeutics that target specific signaling pathways are now available as anti-cancer agents including EGFR inhibitors and rapamycin.

• pharmacotherapeutic