Oncolysate

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any material that causes oncolysis

    "Since then, numerous clinical trials have employed wild type NDV strains either as a direct oncolytic agent, or as an oncolysate vaccine for treatment of patients with various types of advanced stage cancer [6,7,8,9,10,11]."

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"Since then, numerous clinical trials have employed wild type NDV strains either as a direct oncolytic agent, or as an oncolysate vaccine for treatment of patients with various types of advanced stage cancer [6,7,8,9,10,11]."

Etymology

From oncolysis + -ate.

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