Targeted Therapy: Symptoms, Classification, Diagnosis & Recovery

Targeted therapy is a cancer treatment that uses medicines or other chemicals to precisely identify and attack specific cancer cells. A targeted therapy can be used alone or in combination with other therapies like traditional or standard chemotherapy, surgery, or radiation therapy. Precision medicine or personalised medicine are terms used to describe targeted therapy. Small and large molecule (Monoclonal antibodies) medications are the two types of targeted therapies.

Targeted therapy is frequently used in conjunction with chemotherapy and other therapies by doctors. Targeted therapy for a variety of tumours have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Types of cancers treated through Targeted Therapy are Breast cancer, Bladder cancer, Colorectal cancer, Kidney cancer, Leukemia, Liver cancer, Lung cancer, Lymphoma, and Prostate cancer