The Collaborative International Dictionary
chemotherapeutic \chemotherapeutic\ chemotherapeutical \chemotherapeutical\adj. of or pertaining to chemotherapy; using chemotherapy; having properties beneficial for chemotherapy.
Wiktionary
a. (context medicine oncology English) Of or having to do with chemotherapy. n. (context medicine oncology English) A chemical agent used in chemotherapy
WordNet
adj. of or relating to chemotherapy [syn: chemotherapeutical]
Usage examples of "chemotherapeutic".
One of their findings is that the common chemotherapeutic drug cisplatin is particularly effective in killing cancer cells that have a specific defect in their ability to repair their DNA.
But in 1939 it was still very much the case: the discovery of the chemotherapeutic agents, rifampin, para-aminosalicylic acid, isoniazid and especially streptomycin, still lay far beyond a distant horizon.
All this work on chemotherapeutic agents like Canceran is only for palliative purposes.