oncotarget

English

Etymology

From onco- +‎ target.

Noun

oncotarget (plural oncotargets)

1. (medicine) The target of a cancer therapy
   • 2015 April 12, Meichun Hu et al., “Lycorine is a novel inhibitor of the growth and metastasis of hormone-refractory prostate cancer”, in Oncotarget‎^[1], volume 6:

     Many researches confirm STAT3 as a causal role in oncogenesis, and provide validation of STAT3 as an oncotarget for cancer drug discovery [ 18 ].