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vemurafenib

vemurafenib noun: a drug for the treatment of late-stage melanoma.

Noun

vemurafenib (uncountable)

  1. A drug for the treatment of late-stage melanoma.
    • This prompted numerous novel targeted cancer medicines guided by a CDx assay to seek the approval of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA), including cetuximab, crizotinib, vemurafenib etc.2015 June 12, Ildar Akhmetov et al., “Market Access Advancements and Challenges in “Drug-Companion Diagnostic Test” Co-Development in Europe”, in Journal of Personalized Medicine, volume 5, →DOI

Origin of vemurafenib

From V600E mutated BRAF inhibition.

Questions about vemurafenib

What does vemurafenib mean?
Vemurafenib means a drug for the treatment of late-stage melanoma.
What part of speech is vemurafenib?
Vemurafenib is a noun.

Words near vemurafenib in the dictionary

  1. Velykyi Oleksyn
  2. Velykyi Zhytyn
  3. VEM
  4. vemoronasal
  5. VEMs
  6. vemurafenib
  7. Vemuri
  8. Vemuris
  9. ven
  10. ven-
  11. Ven.

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