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Adjuvant chemotherapy is a term used to describe the role of chemotherapy relative to other cancer treatments. The terms adjuvant and neoadjuvant have special meanings in oncology. Adjuvant therapy refers to additional treatment, usually given after surgery where all detectable disease has been removed, but where there remains a statistical risk of relapse due to occult disease. If known disease... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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    Adjuvant chemotherapy

    Adjuvant chemotherapy is a term used to describe the role of chemotherapy relative to other cancer treatments. The terms adjuvant and neoadjuvant have special meanings in oncology.
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    Lung cancer

    Adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with stage IB cancer is controversial, as clinical trials have not clearly demonstrated a survival benefit.
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    Adjuvant

    Adjuvant chemotherapy
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    Cholangiocarcinoma

    If the tumor can be removed surgically, patients may receive adjuvant chemotherapy or radiation therapy after the operation to improve the chances of cure.
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    History of cancer chemotherapy

    Similarly, the landmark trials of Bernard Fisher, chair of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, and of Gianni Bonadonna, working in the Istituto Nazionale Tumori di Milano, Italy, proved that adjuvant chemotherapy after complete surgical resection of breast tumours significantly extended survival — particularly in more advanced cancer.
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    Chemotherapy

    Adjuvant chemotherapy (postoperative treatment) can be used when there is little evidence of cancer present, but there is risk of recurrence.
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    Breast cancer chemotherapy

    The following is a list of commonly used adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer:
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    Post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment

    "Smaller regional volumes of brain gray and white matter demonstrated in breast cancer survivors exposed to adjuvant chemotherapy".
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    Breast cancer treatment

    Other factors which may influence adding adjuvant radiation therapy: ... "Trastuzumab plus adjuvant chemotherapy for operable HER2-positive breast cancer".
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    Neoadjuvant chemotherapy

    Adjuvant chemotherapy

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Adjuvant chemotherapy