Neoadjuvant therapy aims to reduce the size or extent of the cancer before using radical treatment intervention, thus making procedures easier and more likely to succeed, and reducing the consequences of a more extensive treatment technique that would be required if the tumor wasn't reduced in size or extent.
LOS ANGELES - Actress-writer Carrie Hamilton, the 38-year-old daughter of comedian Carol Burnett, died on Sunday due to complications from cancer. Burnett publicist Deborah Kelman said Hamilton died at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Jane Wyman's Daughter, Maureen Reagan, 60, Dies of Cancer - August 8, 2001. Maureen Reagan, who as the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan and actress Jane Wyman raised national awareness of Alzheimer's disease, the memory-robbing disorder that gradually forced her father's exit from public life, died Wednesday of malignant melanoma.