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   Neoadjuvant chemotherapy

   Neoadjuvant chemotherapy refers to drug treatment given to people with cancer prior to surgery or radiotherapy. The aim is to reduce the size of the cancer before recieving further treatment, thus making procedures easier and more likely to be successful.
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   Centre for Magnetic Resonance Investigations

   11. Pickles, MD; Lowry, M; Manton, DJ; et al. Role of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI in monitoring early response of locally advanced breast cancer to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
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   Chemotherapy

   In neoadjuvant chemotherapy (preoperative treatment) initial chemotherapy is designed to shrink the primary tumour, thereby rendering local therapy (surgery or radiotherapy) less destructive or more effective.
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   Adjuvant chemotherapy

   For example, chemotherapy that is given before removal of a breast is considered neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
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   Breast cancer chemotherapy

   Neoadjuvant chemotherapy
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   Breast cancer treatment

   Physical examination and conventional imaging techniques still have an important place in the evaluation of breast cancer treated by neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
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   Lung cancer

   Trials of preoperative chemotherapy (neoadjuvant chemotherapy) in resectable non-small cell lung carcinoma have been inconclusive.
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   Osteosarcoma

   Current standard treatment is to use neoadjuvant chemotherapy (chemotherapy given before surgery) followed by surgical resection.
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   Adrenocortical carcinoma

   Chemotherapy may be given to patients with unresectable disease, to shrink the tumor prior to surgery (neoadjuvant chemotherapy), or in an attempt to eliminate microscopic residual disease after surgery (adjuvant chemotherapy).
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    Metastasectomy

    Patients with initially unresectable liver metastases can be pre-treated with chemotherapy (this is called neoadjuvant chemotherapy).

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Neoadjuvant chemotherapy,
• Centre for Magnetic Resonance Investigations,
• Chemotherapy,
• Adjuvant chemotherapy,
• Breast cancer chemotherapy,
• Breast cancer treatment,
• Lung cancer,
• Osteosarcoma,
• Adrenocortical carcinoma,
• Metastasectomy