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Salvage Therapy

"Salvage Therapy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A therapeutic approach, involving chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or surgery, after initial regimens have failed to lead to improvement in a patient's condition. Salvage therapy is most often used for neoplastic diseases.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Salvage Therapy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Salvage Therapy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 24 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2017 and 2021
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