Medical treatment in addition to a primary treatment to maximise effectiveness
For adjuvant substances, see adjuvant.
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Adjuvant therapy, also known as adjunct therapy, adjuvant care, or augmentation therapy, is a therapy that is given in addition to the primary or initial therapy to maximize its effectiveness. The surgeries and complex treatment regimens used in cancer therapy have led the term to be used mainly to describe adjuvant cancer treatments. An example of such adjuvant therapy is the additional treatment[1] usually given after surgery where all detectable disease has been removed, but where there remains a statistical risk of relapse due to the presence of undetected disease. If known disease is left behind following surgery, then further treatment is not technically adjuvant.
An adjuvant used on its own specifically refers to an agent that improves the effect of a vaccine. Medications used to help primary medications are known as add-ons.
^Chemotherapy, +Adjuvant at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Adjuvanttherapy, also known as adjunct therapy, adjuvant care, or augmentation therapy, is a therapy that is given in addition to the primary or initial...
Specifically, the term can refer to: Adjuvanttherapy in cancer management Analgesic adjuvant in pain management Immunologic adjuvant in vaccines This article includes...
exploration for different strategies such as antibiotic adjuvanttherapy. Antibiotic adjuvanttherapy refers to therapeutic approaches that aim to improve...
and have not spread to other parts. It may also be used as part of adjuvanttherapy, to prevent tumor recurrence after surgery to remove a primary malignant...
In immunology, an adjuvant is a substance that increases or modulates the immune response to a vaccine. The word "adjuvant" comes from the Latin word adiuvare...
controversial. In addition to the primary therapy of antibiotics and corticosteroids, other adjuvanttherapies are under development or are sometimes used...
enough to destroy the tumor in its entirety. This approach was termed "adjuvanttherapy". Emil Frei first demonstrated this effect — high doses of methotrexate...
excised), adjuvanttherapy is of uncertain benefit. Both positive and negative results have been reported with adjuvant radiation therapy in this setting...
adjuvanted therapy is to eradicate micro metastasis and prolong disease free survival.[unreliable medical source?] The Standard adjuvanttherapy is a combination...
radiotherapy are used as a first-line radical therapy in several malignancies. They are also used for adjuvanttherapy, i.e. when the macroscopic tumor has already...
will receive endocrine therapy after their surgery, which is part of adjuvanttherapy. Large tumors may receive neo-adjuvanttherapy via chemotherapy or...
increase. Ongoing areas of clinical research include optimizing adjuvant hormonal therapy in postmenopausal women with breast cancer. Tamoxifen (a SERM)...
Menig M, Markes MH (September 2016). "Exercise for women receiving adjuvanttherapy for breast cancer". The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2016...
photodynamic therapy. The monoclonal antibody against vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), bevacizumab, has shown promising result as an adjuvanttherapy in...
adjuvant treatment, use of chemotherapy as an alternative to radiation therapy in the treatment of seminoma is increasing, because radiation therapy appears...
settings.: 23 In the adjuvant treatment setting, the majority of GIST tumors are cured by surgery, and do not need adjuvanttherapy. An exception to this...
inventory available for the treatment of nonseasonal depression today, as adjuvanttherapy to antidepressant medication, or eventually as stand-alone treatment...
disease is completely resected, the patient will be considered for adjuvanttherapy. Excisional skin biopsy is the management of choice. Here, the suspect...
amputation is rarely required. Streptokinase has been proposed as adjuvanttherapy in some cases. Despite the clear presence of inflammation in this disorder...
PMID 27103532. Gelmetti C (January 2009). "Therapeutic moisturizers as adjuvanttherapy for psoriasis patients". American Journal of Clinical Dermatology....
meta-analyses have proposed two adjuvanttherapies which may help in the eradication of H. pylori. Periodontal therapy or what is known as scaling and...
adjunct therapy adjunctive therapyadjuvanttherapy alternative therapy (two senses: a second choice among scientific therapies, or alternative medicine)...
with one agent at a time is called single-agent therapy or monotherapy. Adjuvanttherapy is therapy given in addition to the primary, main, or initial...
been used for adjuvanttherapy of stage 1 seminomatous testicular cancer. Research has indicated that it is not less effective than adjuvant radiotherapy...
stage of the cancer. Additionally, chemotherapy can be used as an adjuvanttherapy after radiation to lower the risk of recurrence in the patient. If...
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