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anti-cancer

anti-cancer is the alternative form of anticancer.

Meaning of anticancer

Adjective

anticancer (not comparable)

  1. That is used to treat cancer.
    • Mitomycin C is an anticancer drug, and may be administered as part of chemotherapy.

Questions about anti-cancer

What is anti-cancer the alternative form of?
Anti-cancer is the alternative form of anticancer.

Words near anti-cancer in the dictionary

  1. anti-caking agents
  2. anti-caliph
  3. anti-caliphs
  4. anti-camera
  5. anti-Canadianism
  6. anti-cancer
  7. anti-cap
  8. anti-capitalism
  9. anti-capitalisms
  10. anti-capitalist
  11. anti-capitalists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anti-cancer (page history and authors); anticancer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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