Targeted therapies are a type of medicine used to treat cancer. They work differently than standard chemotherapy. Instead of killing all fast-growing cells or keeping them from dividing, targeted ...

Targeted therapies are cancer medications that work more selectively than standard chemotherapy medications. They do this by targeting specific molecules or genetic changes in cancer cells in order to ...

Modern medicine is more advanced than ever, yet clinical care still leans heavily on what is, in practice, informed guesswork. Doctors make the most probable diagnosis, select the therapy most likely ...

The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology has launched a new clinical trial for adults who need first-line therapy for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL). The ...

A one‑year course of T‑DM1 offers excellent cancer‑free survival for early HER2‑positive breast cancer, with far less nerve ...

Survivorship Care for People Affected by Advanced or Metastatic Cancer: Building on the Recent Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer-ASCO Standards and Practice Recommendations The ...

Sequential therapy strategies in oncogene-driven NSCLC. This figure illustrates a proposed therapeutic decision-making pathway for patients with NSCLC who develop acquired resistance after initial ...

Molecularly targeted therapies are increasingly relevant in clinical oncology, as they enable the selective modulation of specific biologic targets—such as enzymes or receptors—by inhibiting or ...

More effective combinations of targeted therapies, strategies to minimize side effects, the use of subcutaneous rather than intravenous immunotherapies, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools to ...

A Lafayette father's battle with stage 4 pancreatic cancer is taking a hopeful turn as he becomes the first in Colorado to receive a newly approved targeted therapy.