neoadjuvant

[ nee-oh-aj-uh-vuhnt ]

/ ˌni oʊˈædʒ ə vənt /

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adjective Medicine/Medical.

utilizing drugs, radiation therapy, or other means of supplemental treatment before cancer surgery or other primary cancer treatment: Her neoadjuvant therapy included hormones and chemo, which shrank the tumor prior to its surgical removal.

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Compare adjuvant.

Origin of neoadjuvant

First recorded in 1980–85; neo- + adjuvant

Words nearby neoadjuvant

nene, Nenets, N. Eng., Nenni, NEO, neoadjuvant, neoanthropic, neoantigen, neoarsphenamine, neoarthrosis, neoblastic