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   Adjuvant chemotherapy

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

   Adjuvants are pharmacological or immunological agents that modify the effect of other agents (e.g., drugs, vaccines) while having few if any direct effects when given by themselves. ... Adjuvant chemotherapy
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   Adjuvant cancer therapy

   Adjuvant therapy is a term used to describe the role of therapy relative to other cancer treatments. ... combination adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer
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   Chemotherapy

   Chemotherapy, in its most general sense, is the treatment of disease by chemicals especially by killing micro-organisms or cancerous cells. ... 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

   Breast cancer chemotherapy refers to the use of cytotoxic drugs (chemotherapy) in the treatment of breast cancer. ... Adjuvant chemotherapy
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   History of cancer chemotherapy

   The era of cancer chemotherapy began in the 1940s with the first use of nitrogen mustards and folic acid antagonist drugs. ... 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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   Leydig cell tumour

   Leydig cell tumour, also Leydig cell tumor (US spelling), (testicular) interstitial cell tumour and (testicular) interstitial cell tumor (US spelling), is a member of the sex cord-stromal tumour group of ovarian and testicular cancers. ... For malignant tumours, the surgery may be radical and usually is followed by adjuvant chemotherapy, sometimes by radiation therapy.
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   Sertoli-Leydig cell tumour

   Sertoli-Leydig cell tumour is a group of tumors composed of variable proportions of Sertoli cells, Leydig cells, and in the case of intermediate and poorly differentiated neoplasms, primitive gonadal stroma and sometimes heterologous elements. ... For malignant tumours, the surgery may be radical and usually is followed by adjuvant chemotherapy, sometimes by radiation therapy.
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   Carmofur

   Carmofur (INN) or HCFU (1-hexylcarbamoyl-5-fluorouracil) is a pyrimidine analogue used as an antineoplastic agent. ... Carmofur, in its oral form, has also been used as adjuvant chemotherapy for curatively resected colorectal cancer patients.
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    Neoadjuvant chemotherapy

    for information on neoadjuvant therapy in rectal cancer,see the article neoadjuvant therapy in rectal cancer Neoadjuvant therapy refers to systemic drug treatment or radiation therapy given to people with cancer prior to surgery. ... Adjuvant chemotherapy

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• Carmofur,
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