salvage therapy

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Salvage therapy

Treatment measures taken late in the course of a disease after other therapies have failed. It is also known as rescue therapy.

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salvage therapy

[sal′vij]

Etymology: Fr, sauver, to save; Gk, therapeia, treatment

therapy administered to sites at which previous therapies have failed and the disease has recurred.

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