How cancer cells get started is that it originally started off as a normal cell. Once it goes through a process of tumor cells, it turns into cancer. The drugs are used to disrupt cancer from growing and spreading it to other parts of the body.
There are some types of targeted therapy which here is a small sample. New ones are created and come out all the time. A small sample of it is Gleevec® (imatinib mesylate), Iressa® (gefitinib), Sutent® (sunitinib), and Velcade® (bortezomib).
This may help solve the cancer issue which will be used in the future too. It is possible to custom made for each patient that may benefit from using this treatment. Less side effects and better quality of life will make cancer patients happy from it. The doctors won’t just use one method but sometimes will use two different ones since the treatments may prevent it. Some cancers ended up being resistant to one version which is why they will combine different targeted therapy methods.
This might be combined with chemotherapy and radiation therapy to treat cancer. At the moment, the targeted therapy is used on advanced stage of cancer and more research will be done. The doctors want to determine what types of cancer will benefit using this system on the patients. This is effective for people who will come forward and go through this process and unfortunately, it doesn’t help people who won’t take the opportunity to try out the targeted therapy.
