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.
Chlorambucil was a breakthrough in cancer treatment because it could target fast-growing cells—but it also showed us the dark side of chemotherapy drugs that damage healthy cells too!
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