cancer drug

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cancer drug - any of several drugs that control or kill neoplastic cells; used in chemotherapy to kill cancer cells; all have unpleasant side effects that may include nausea and vomiting and hair loss and suppression of bone marrow functionantineoplastic, antineoplastic drugalkylating agent - an antineoplastic drug used to treat some forms of cancerantimetabolite - an antineoplastic drug that inhibits the utilization of a metaboliteantineoplastic antibiotic - an antibiotic drug used as an antineoplastic in chemotherapyasparaginase, Elspar - antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemiacytotoxic drug - any drug that has a toxic effect on cells; commonly used in chemotherapy to inhibit the proliferation of cancerous cellsfloxuridine - antineoplastic drug used to treat some cancers; can cause loss of hairlomustine - an antineoplastic drug often used to treat brain tumors or Hodgkin's diseaseAlkeran, melphalan - antineoplastic drug (trade name Alkeran) used to treat multiple myeloma and some other malignanciesperiwinkle plant derivative - an antineoplastic drug used to treat some forms of cancerprocarbazine - an antineoplastic drug used to treat Hodgkin's diseasethioguanine - an antineoplastic drug used to treat acute leukemiasthiotepa - an antineoplastic drug used to treat certain malignancies