alkylating agent

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   an antineoplastic drug used to treat some forms of cancer

   Broaderantineoplastic

   Narrowerchlorambucil

Questions about alkylating agent

What does alkylating agent mean?

alkylating agent means "an antineoplastic drug used to treat some forms of cancer".

Is alkylating agent a common word?

alkylating agent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.