Meanings
nounoncotarget (plural oncotargets)
plural oncotargets
- medicineThe target of a cancer therapy
Many researches confirm STAT3 as a causal role in oncogenesis, and provide validation of STAT3 as an oncotarget for cancer drug discovery [ 18 ].
2015 April 12, Meichun Hu et al., “Lycorine is a novel inhibitor of the growth and metastasis of hormone-refractory prostate cancer”, in Oncotarget, volume 6
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