ONCOLOGY CONCEPTS * Neo- Adjuvant Chemotherapy* -#NeoadjuvantChemotherapy means use of Chemotherapy/targeted therapy before definitive local treatments like Surgery or Radiation. - Neoadjuvant Chemotherpy has many #advantages 1) Helps in shrinking the tumor which facilitates local treatment like Surgery and radiation and improves the outcome. 2) Can convert locally advanced inoperable tumors to operable or help facilitate organ sparing/ limb salvage surgeries. 3) Helps to assess the biology of disease and assess the response of tumor to chemotherpy and accordingly give opportunity to modify treatment if required. 4) Achieving complete #pathologicalresponse i.e finding no viable tumor in the surgical specimen has been found to translate in better recurrence free and overall survival in many cancers. * Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is most #commonly used in 1) Breast cancers 2) Ovarian cancers 3) Esophageal/Gastric/colorectal cancer 4) Urinary Bladder cancers( Muscle invasive) 5) Bony Sarcomas ( Osteosarcoma/Ewings Sarcoma) 6) selected head and neck cancers 7) Lung Cancers * Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy is not a substitute for definitive treatment which includes Surgery and/or radiation. * It helps to improve outcomes when used in right indications with Multimodality cancer treatment. #neoadjuvantchemotherapy #Chemotherapy #usesofchemotherapy #chemotherapyexpert #targetedtherapyincancer #cancerspecialistinpune #Drrahulkulkarni #sahyadrihospitalspune #oncowincancerclinicpune