Neoadjuvant Sentence Examples

When chemotherapy is used before surgery or radiation, it is known as primary chemotherapy or neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Because the cancer cells have not yet been exposed to anti-cancer drugs, they are especially vulnerable, allowing neoadjuvant therapy to effectively reduce tumor size.

However, the toxic effects of neoadjuvant chemotherapy may be severe, because normal cells are also destroyed.

Chemotherapy may be given before surgery or radiation therapy to shrink the tumor (neoadjuvant therapy).