In the Adjuvant Setting?

Additional cancer treatment given after the primary treatment to lower the risk that the cancer will come back. Adjuvant therapy may include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormone therapy, targeted therapy, or biological therapy.

What do you mean adjuvant?

Adjuvant therapy: Treatment that is given in addition to the primary (initial) treatment. Adjuvant treatment is an addition designed to help reach the ultimate goal. Adjuvant therapy for cancer usually refers to surgery followed by chemo- or radiotherapy to help decrease the risk of the cancer recurring (coming back).

What is adjuvant systemic therapy?

Adjuvant systemic therapy refers to the administration, after primary surgery, of hormone therapy, chemotherapy, or trastuzumab (Herceptin: Genentech, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.), a monoclonal antibody directed against her2/neu.