Definition of high school. : a school especially in the U.S. usually including grades 9â12 or 10â12.
Adjuvant (meaning âin addition toâ) chemotherapy refers to medicines administered after surgery for the treatment of breast cancer. Adjuvant chemotherapy is designed to prevent recurrence of the disease, particularly distant recurrence.
Sometimes, chemotherapy is used as the only cancer treatment. More often, you will get chemotherapy along with surgery, radiation therapy, or biological therapy. Chemotherapy can: Make a tumor smaller before surgery or radiation therapy. This is called neo-adjuvant chemotherapy.