neoadjuvant
Medicine
adjective
Designating cancer treatment (usually chemotherapy) that is administered before the start of a second method of treatment (usually surgery or radiotherapy), with the aim of improving the outcome of the latter.
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in Cancer.
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