Salvage Therapy

(SAL-vij THAYR-uh-pee) Treatment that is given after the cancer has not responded to other treatments.

A treatment effort for people who are not responding to, or cannot tolerate the preferred, recommended treatments for a particular condition. In the context of HIV infection, drug treatments that are used or studied in individuals who have failed one or more HIV drug regimens. In this case, failed refers to the inability to achieve or sustain low viral load levels.