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.
In order to combat this risk and try to treat potential micrometastatic disease, we often give systemic therapy before and/or after the local therapy. A particularly common approach is to follow surgery with chemotherapy, which is called adjuvant therapy, with adjuvant meaning âhelperâ.