Neoadjuvant therapy is the administration of therapeutic agents before a main treatment. One example is neoadjuvant hormone therapy prior to radical radiotherapy for adenocarcinoma of the prostate.
Caroline Chisholm was known as 'the emigrant's friend'. She earned this title for her work with poor migrants to Australia last century. Caroline was one of this country's most outstanding women. Her portrait was on the five dollar note for more than twenty years.Caroline Chisholm was born in England in 1808. Even as a young girl she was interested in helping people.Her parents' home was always open to everyone, no matter how rich or poor. When she was twenty-two years old she married Archibald Chisholm, an officer in the British Army.aroline Chisholm was born in England in 1808. Even as a young girl she was interested in helping people. Her parents' home was always open to everyone, no matter how rich or poor. When she was twenty-two years old she married Archibald Chisholm, an officer in the British Army.
When the far-reaching United States Fugitive Slave Law was passed in 1850, she helped guide fugitives farther north into Canada, and helped newly freed slaves find work. When the American Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy. The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the Combahee River Raid, which liberated more than seven hundred slaves. After the war, she retired to the family home in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents.