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Systemic chemotherapy administered after the use of definitive loco-regional treatment (resection of all known tumor); histological assessment of the resected tumor specimen allows allocation of a pathological stage, thus predication of likely outcome without further intervention; → see also neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
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Nahler, G. (2009). adjuvant chemotherapy. In: Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Medicine. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-89836-9_28
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