chemotherapeutic agents

chemotherapeutic agents
(ke\'mo-ther-ah-pu\'tik)
Compounds used in the treatment of disease that destroy pathogens or inhibit their growth at concentrations low enough to avoid doing undesirable damage to the host.

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