Adjuvant therapy, also called adjunct therapy, adjuvant care or augmentation therapy, is therapy given in addition to the primary or initial therapy to maximize its effectiveness. The complex surgeries and treatment regimens used in cancer care have led the term to be used mainly to describe adjuvant cancer treatments, such as additional therapy given after surgery has removed all detectable disease but a statistical risk of relapse remains because of undetected disease; if known disease is left behind after surgery, further treatment is not technically adjuvant. Used on its own, the word adjuvant specifically refers to an agent that improves the effect of a vaccine, while medications used to help primary medications generally are known as add-ons.
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Adjuvant therapy is additional cancer treatment given after the primary treatment to reduce the risk of recurrence.
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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.
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was first coined by Paul Carbone and his team at the National Cancer Institute in 1963
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Who coined the term adjuvant therapy?
Paul Carbone and his team at the National Cancer Institute, in 1963.
The Wikipedia history of adjuvant therapy states that the term was first coined by Paul Carbone and his team at the National Cancer Institute in 1963. It now mainly describes additional cancer treatment given after surgery has removed all detectable disease but a statistical risk of relapse remains.
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