radiotherapeuticadj.n.
/ˌreɪdɪəʊˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪk/, U.S. /ˌreɪdioʊˌθɛrəˈpjudɪk/ A. adj.
Of, relating to, or employing radiotherapy.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by radiation > [adjective]
radiotherapeutic1904
radiotherapeutical1922
1904 Lancet 26 Mar. 901/1 (heading) The dangers of radio-therapeutic applications.
1906 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily News 22 Nov. 11/1 (advt.) Radio-Therapeutic and Electric treatments of every kind.
1932 Discovery Aug. 255/2 The report urges the establishment of radio~therapeutic centres associated with large general hospitals.
1977 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 70 591/2 This is a very comprehensive review of the present state of knowledge of the investigation and treatment, medical, surgical and radiotherapeutic, of these lesions.
1997 Jrnl. Urol. 158 814 All patients were treated at a single center and with the same radiotherapeutic regimen.
B. n.
A radiopharmaceutical used in radiotherapy.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > radioactive compound
radiopharmaceutical1957
radiotherapeutic1993
1993 Jrnl. Nucl. Med. 34 2222 (title) Measurement of pharmacokinetics of yttrium-86 radiopharmaceuticals with PET and radiation dose calculation of analogous yttrium-90 radiotherapeutics.
1999 Science 17 Dec. 2400/1 The goal of this project is to develop targeted radiotherapeutics for the treatment of brain tumors and other malignancies.
2004 Peptides 25 2087 (title) Radioiodine and 211At-labeled guanidinomethyl halobenzoyl octreotate conjugates: potential peptide radiotherapeutics for somatostatin receptor-positive cancers.
Derivatives
radiotheraˈpeutical adj. = sense A.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by radiation > [adjective]
radiotherapeutic1904
radiotherapeutical1922
1922 I. Kozminsky Magic & Sci. Jewels & Stones 413 Dr. T. Coke Squance of Sunderland, well-known in connection with radio-therapeutical research, has succeeded in transforming a faint pink sapphire into a fine ruby.
1973 Nature 9 Mar. 80/2 In many parts of the world surgical and radiotherapeutical methods of treating cancer are simply not available.
1995 European Jrnl. Surg. Oncol. 21 125 New radiotherapeutical techniques and anti-neoplastic agents are now under investigation.
radiotheraˈpeutically adv. by means of or as a result of radiotherapy.
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1937 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 34 50 In the surgically or radiotherapeutically induced menopause, much can be done by prophylactic psychotherapy.
1960 Lancet 19 Mar. 640/2 These findings have posed a therapeutic problem which some have attempted to solve surgically..and others radiotherapeutically.
1997 Clin. Neurol. & Neurosurg. 99 113 Intracranial lesions detected after a long follow-up might be radiotherapeutically induced second tumours.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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