neoadjuvant

[ nee-oh-aj-uh-vuhnt ]
/ ˌni oʊˈædʒ ə vənt /

adjective Medicine/Medical.

utilizing drugs, radiation therapy, or other means of supplemental treatment before cancer surgery or other primary cancer treatment: Her neoadjuvant therapy included hormones and chemo, which shrank the tumor prior to its surgical removal.
Compare adjuvant.

Origin of neoadjuvant

First recorded in 1980–85; neo- + adjuvant

Words nearby neoadjuvant

neo-pentecostal, neo-platonism, neo-pythagoreanism, neo-scholasticism, neo-synephrine, neoadjuvant, neoanthropic, neoantigen, neoarsphenamine, neoarthrosis, neoblastic