Neoadjuvant Definition

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).