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neratinib

neratinib noun: a tyrosine kinase inhibitor used to treat breast cancer.

Noun

neratinib (uncountable)

  1. A tyrosine kinase inhibitor used to treat breast cancer.
    • The overexpression of miR-630 in breast cancer cells that are resistant to HER-targeted drugs significantly restores the efficacy of those drugs (e.g., lapatinib, neratinib and afatinib), which indicates that miR-630 can be used as a diagnostic and predictive marker to gauge the treatment response...2015 June 20, Lei Zhou et al., “The roles of microRNAs in the regulation of tumor metastasis”, in Cell & Bioscience, volume 5, →DOI

Questions about neratinib

What does neratinib mean?
Neratinib means a tyrosine kinase inhibitor used to treat breast cancer.
What part of speech is neratinib?
Neratinib is a noun.

Words near neratinib in the dictionary

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  4. neral
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  6. neratinib
  7. Nerazzurri
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  9. NERC
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