CLINICAL MEDICINE

Detailed explanation-1: -Treatment given after the main treatment to reduce the chance of cancer coming back by destroying any remaining cancer cells. It usually refers to chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormone therapy, and/or immunotherapy given after surgery.

Detailed explanation-2: -Additional cancer treatment given after the primary treatment to lower the risk that the cancer will come back.

Detailed explanation-3: -Adjuvant therapy is often used after primary treatments, such as surgery, to lessen the chance of your cancer coming back. Even if your surgery was successful at removing all visible cancer, microscopic bits of cancer sometimes remain and are undetectable with current methods.

Detailed explanation-4: -If you have early-stage estrogen receptive positive (ER-positive) cancer, your healthcare provider may recommend adjuvant hormone therapy. Studies show people who’ve adjuvant hormone therapy after surgery reduce the chance their cancer will come back, or they’ll develop new cancer somewhere else in their body.

Detailed explanation-5: -Adjuvant radiotherapy is administered to those patients who have undergone breast-conserving therapy and postmastectomy patients with primary tumors greater than 5 cm or more than four positive lymph nodes.