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31 de may. de 2022 · Targeted therapy is a type of cancer treatment that targets the changes in cancer cells that help them grow, divide, and spread. Learn how targeted therapy works against cancer and about side effects that may occur.
Targeted therapy is a type of cancer treatment. It uses drugs to target specific genes and proteins that help cancer cells survive and grow. Targeted therapy can affect the tissue environment that cancer cells grow in or it can target cells related to cancer growth, like blood vessel cells.
Targeted therapy or molecularly targeted therapy is one of the major modalities of medical treatment (pharmacotherapy) for cancer, others being hormonal therapy and cytotoxic chemotherapy.
The 2 most common types of targeted therapy are monoclonal antibodies and small-molecule inhibitors. Monoclonal antibodies target specific proteins, often receptors, on the cancer cell’s surface 6 or in the environment around the tumour. These large molecules are not able to enter the cell.
- Sian L. Shuel
- Can Fam Physician. 2022 Jul; 68(7): 515-518.
- 10.46747/cfp.6807515
- 2022/07
3 de nov. de 2023 · Targeted therapy focuses on the genetic characteristics of cancer cells. It uses drugs to attack mutated genes to prevent the cancer from surviving or spreading. Introduced in 2004,...
- Laura Goldman
14 de abr. de 2022 · Targeted therapy is a kind of cancer treatment that’s focused on genetic changes or mutations that turn healthy cells into cancer cells. To use targeted therapy, healthcare providers test for the genetic changes responsible for helping cancer cells grow and survive.
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 cells.
