Targeted therapy
Targeted therapy is a type of Cancer Treatment that uses drugs designed to “target” cancer cells without affecting normal cells.
Cancer cells typically have changes in their genes that make them different from normal cel...
Targeted therapy drugs, like other drugs used to treat cancer, are technically considered Chemotherapy. But Targeted therapy drugs don’t work the same way as traditional or standard Chemotherapy (chemo) drugs. Targeted drugs zero in on some o...
Targeted therapies are made to find and attack specific areas or substances in cancer cells, or can detect and block certain kinds of messages sent inside a cancer cell that tell it to grow. Some of the substances in cancer cells that become the “...
Targeted therapy is sometimes called precision medicine or personalized medicine. This is because they are made to exactly target specific changes or substances in cancer cells, and these targets can be different even when people have the same ty...
Many kinds of cancer can be treated with targeted therapies, and there are many different types of targeted therapies. Here are some types with a few examples of how they are used.
Angiogenesis inhibitors: These block the formation of new bl...
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What is Targeted therapy?
