noun
- an antibiotic drug used in cancer chemotherapy that works by interfering with DNA synthesis
Usage: medical
Examples
- The oncologist prescribed mitomycin as part of the patient’s chemotherapy regimen.
- Mitomycin is often used to treat bladder cancer.
- The drug mitomycin can cause serious side effects including bone marrow suppression.
- Researchers studied the effectiveness of mitomycin in combination with other cancer drugs.
- The patient received mitomycin injections directly into the bladder.
- Mitomycin works by cross-linking DNA strands in cancer cells.