Neoadjuvant Therapy

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As neoadjuvant therapy (composed of ancient Greek νέος "new" and Latin adiuvare , "support") is in oncology , a therapy called ( chemotherapy or radiation therapy , and possibly in combination) that the reduction of the tumor mass before is carried out a planned surgery .

It is therefore also called inductive therapy and is carried out when a tumor is primarily inoperable. The neoadjuvant therapy is intended to reduce the size of the tumor with the aim of making surgical removal of the tumor possible. In this case, it is the only way to curative therapy for a malignant tumor.

Chemotherapy or radiation therapy, which is carried out to remove the tumor after an operation, is called adjuvant therapy .

Individual evidence

1. ^ AC Regierer, K. Possinger: Mammakarzinom . In: therapy manual. 5th edition. Urban & Fischer, Munich 2007, Chapter L 16-2,

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