adjuvant

Definitions

1. Providing assistance or help; assistive, facilitative, helpful.
   formal
2. Enhancing the immune response to an antigen; also, containing a substance having such an effect.
3. Of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; specifically (oncology), of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour.

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Examples

“Adjuvant chemotherapy, [Paul] Carbone conjectured, could be the surgeon's little helper. It would eradicate microscopic deposits of cancer left behind after surgery, thus extirpating any remnant reservoirs of malignancy in the body in early breast cancer— […]”

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