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adjuvant

[aj-uh-vuhnt] / ˈædʒ ə vənt /












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Moving forward, the analyst plans to monitor other data readouts, including the results of two trials evaluating the efficacy of intismeran alone in patients with renal cell carcinoma and as an adjuvant therapy for melanoma.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

Nevertheless, negative results for breast cancer drug candidate giredestrant as a first-line treatment mean the majority of its opportunity is in the so-called adjuvant setting, when drugs are given after tumor-removal surgery, the analysts add.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Vaccines -- regardless the target disease -- contain two primary components: The antigen and the adjuvant.

From Science Daily • Oct. 13, 2025

That’s the standard approach for most vaccines, because the antibody responses that you get are actually stronger with a protein and an adjuvant than with an mRNA.

From Slate • Oct. 8, 2025

The x-ray treatment is best reserved for obstinate cases, and then used mildly, and rather as an adjuvant to the ordinary methods than as the sole measure.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman




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