adjuvant therapy

English

Noun

adjuvant therapy (countable and uncountable, plural adjuvant therapies)

1. (medicine) any secondary treatment for cancer (such as chemotherapy) given after the primary treatment (such as surgery) in order to remove residual microscopic disease

Related terms

• neoadjuvant therapy

Translations

secondary treatment

• Finnish: adjuvanttihoito (fi)
• Portuguese: terapia adjuvante f, adjuvância f