#targeted therapy

What Is Targeted Therapy?

Adagrasib targets a specific cancer-causing mutation, while VS-6766 interferes with multiple steps in a cell growth signaling pathway.

Diagnosed 10 months ago, the 32-year-old political strategist is receiving targeted therapy.

Jamil Rivers, 42, is the board president of METAvivor, a nonprofit breast cancer organization. She is living with metastatic breast cancer.

Julie Mizraji, who is living with metastatic breast cancer, ran her half-marathon birthday race with a little help from her friends.

The report highlights how cancer research is extending and improving lives and includes a special feature on COVID-19 and cancer challenges.

Opdivo plus Cabometyx reduced the risk of death by 40%.

The drug also showed promise for colorectal and other cancers, but it might work better in combination regimens.

Adding the targeted drug to chemo and radiation treatment is safe and increases the chance that most of the tumor will die before surgery.

The most aggressive type of skin cancer may respond to immunotherapy.

The targeted therapy shrank tumors in more than half of people with previously treated non-small-cell lung cancer.

Stivarga also improved survival in those with recurrent HCC after a liver transplant.

Nearly half of patients treated with the combination saw their tumors shrink in an early study.

Recent studies suggest chemotherapy and immunotherapy are not linked to more severe COVID-19.

More than 80% of clinical trial participants experienced complete or partial remission.