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adjuvant therapy

adjuvant therapy noun: any secondary treatment for cancer (such as chemotherapy) given after the primary treatment (such as surgery) in order to remove residual microscopic disease.

Noun

adjuvant therapy (countable and uncountable, plural adjuvant therapies)

  1. any secondary treatment for cancer (such as chemotherapy) given after the primary treatment (such as surgery) in order to remove residual microscopic disease

Forms of adjuvant therapy

pluraladjuvant therapies

Questions about adjuvant therapy

What does adjuvant therapy mean?
Adjuvant therapy means any secondary treatment for cancer (such as chemotherapy) given after the primary treatment (such as surgery) in order to remove residual microscopic disease.
What part of speech is adjuvant therapy?
Adjuvant therapy is a noun.
What is the plural of adjuvant therapy?
The plural of adjuvant therapy is adjuvant therapies.

Words near adjuvant therapy in the dictionary

  1. adjuvances
  2. adjuvancies
  3. adjuvancy
  4. adjuvant
  5. adjuvant therapies
  6. adjuvant therapy
  7. adjuvantation
  8. adjuvantations
  9. adjuvanted
  10. adjuvantic
  11. adjuvanticity

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