| It is provided at the same time as another | | | | strategy, with no evidence (for example an |
| treatment to help the patient. For the treatment | | | | elevated PSA level) of returning disease. The |
| of prostate cancer, an example of adjuvant | | | | argument for adjuvant therapy is that it expands |
| therapy would be the practice of early | | | | the beneficial margin of traditional therapy, which |
| chemotherapy. | | | | possibly will be attained by destroying either |
| Early prostate cancer management is one of the | | | | microscopic deposits of cancer outside the surgical |
| most controversial subjects in the domain of | | | | radiation area or subclinical metastatic illness. |
| cancer medication with surgery, watchful waiting, | | | | Adjuvant therapy is a name utilized to give details |
| radiotherapy, primary hormonal therapy (attained | | | | the role of therapy in relation to other cancer |
| either by medication or by the surgical removal of | | | | treatments. In oncology the terms adjuvant and |
| the testes) and all being acceptable types of initial | | | | neoadjuvant have the distinctive meanings. |
| management. | | | | Adjuvant therapy refers to supplementary |
| The function of adjuvant therapy is to add to the | | | | treatment, typically provided after surgery where |
| treatment rate of traditional therapies, like | | | | all noticeable illness has been removed, but where |
| radiation or surgery. It is used before the | | | | there remains a statistical risk of relapse because |
| documentation of persistent disease. | | | | of occult illness. If identified disease is left behind |
| That is to say, the therapy is managed either | | | | following surgery, in that case further treatment |
| before (neoadjuvant), coexistent with, or almost | | | | is not in principle "adjuvant". |
| immediately after the primary therapeutic | | | | |