aminopterin
/ˌæmɪnoʊˈptɛrɪn/
noun
- A drug that stops cells from growing by blocking the use of folic acid, once used to treat cancer but now mostly replaced by safer medicines.
- Doctors stopped using aminopterin because it caused severe side effects.
- Aminopterin was one of the first drugs used to treat childhood leukemia.
- Research on aminopterin helped scientists develop better cancer treatments.