adjuvant therapy

Known as: adjunct therapy, adjunctive therapy 
Any therapy that is administered to augment or stimulate other treatment modalities or to minimize or prevent disease recurrence subsequent to the… (More)
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2016
Review
2016
Antifibrotic Actions of Serelaxin - New Roles for an Old Player.
Fibrosis represents a failed wound healing response to tissue injury. It is characterized by the accumulation of excess… (More)
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2008
Highly Cited
2008
Preoperative chemotherapy: updates of National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Protocols B-18 and B-27.
PURPOSE National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) Protocol B-18 was designed to determine whether four cycles… (More)
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2007
Highly Cited
2007
Adjuvant chemotherapy with gemcitabine vs observation in patients undergoing curative-intent resection of pancreatic cancer: a randomized controlled trial.
CONTEXT The role of adjuvant therapy in resectable pancreatic cancer is still uncertain, and no recommended standard exists… (More)
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2005
Highly Cited
2005
Effect of screening and adjuvant therapy on mortality from breast cancer.
BACKGROUND We used modeling techniques to assess the relative and absolute contributions of screening mammography and adjuvant… (More)
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2005
Highly Cited
2005
Gene expression profiling spares early breast cancer patients from adjuvant therapy: derived and validated in two population-based cohorts
Adjuvant breast cancer therapy significantly improves survival, but overtreatment and undertreatment are major problems. Breast… (More)
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2005
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2005
Neoadjuvant versus adjuvant systemic treatment in breast cancer: a meta-analysis.
BACKGROUND Interest in the use of preoperative systemic treatment in the management of breast cancer has increased because such… (More)
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2005
Highly Cited
2005
Randomized trial of letrozole following tamoxifen as extended adjuvant therapy in receptor-positive breast cancer: updated findings from NCIC CTG MA.17.
BACKGROUND Most recurrences in women with breast cancer receiving 5 years of adjuvant tamoxifen occur after 5 years. The MA.17… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Concurrent chemotherapy and pelvic radiation therapy compared with pelvic radiation therapy alone as adjuvant therapy after radical surgery in high-risk early-stage cancer of the cervix.
PURPOSE To determine whether the addition of cisplatin-based chemotherapy (CT) to pelvic radiation therapy (RT) will improve the… (More)
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1998
Highly Cited
1998
Tamoxifen for Prevention of Breast Cancer : Report of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project P-1 Study
Background: The finding of a decrease in contralateral breast cancer incidence following tamoxifen administration for adjuvant… (More)
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1990
Highly Cited
1990
Levamisole and fluorouracil for adjuvant therapy of resected colon carcinoma.
Twelve hundred ninety-six patients with resected colon cancer that either was locally invasive (Stage B2) or had regional nodal… (More)
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