Chlorambucil

/klɔːˈræmbjuːsɪl/ noun

A chemotherapy drug used to treat certain cancers and autoimmune diseases by damaging cancer cell DNA.

From chlor- (chlorine) + amb- (unclear origin) + -ucil (pharmaceutical suffix). Synthesized in the 1950s as part of cancer drug development.

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