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“CRAB” CARE AND CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY
Author(s) -
Stephens Frederick O.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1976.tb117617.x
Subject(s) - chemotherapy , occult , medicine , radiation therapy , disease , adjuvant chemotherapy , standard of care , cancer , adjuvant , surgery , oncology , pathology , breast cancer , alternative medicine
The letters CRAB indicate that there are four broad uses of chemotherapy in treating solid tumours: (i) curative, which is always the aim but as yet can rarely be reliably achieved with chemotherapy alone; (ii) relieving chemotherapy for widespread or incurable disease; (iii) adjuvant care to prevent peripheral occult disease developing after standard surgery or radiotherapy; and (iv) basal chemotherapy, to reduce the size, viability and especially the peripheral extent of large, localized tumour masses in preparation for definitive treatment usually by radiotherapy and/or extirpative surgery.