Cancer Diagnosis & Treatment"

Molecular Targeted Cancer Therapy and Precision Medicines

Targeted Cancer therapies are drugs or medication that prevent the growth and spread of cancer by interfering with molecular target that are involved. Targeted therapies also called as Molecularly targeted cancer therapies, Molecularly targeted drugs. Chemotherapy and Targeted therapies differs in several ways: the Targeted therapies act on the specific Molecular target and block tumor cell proliferation whereas Chemotherapy acts on rapidly dividing normal and Cancer cell and kill cell. Molecular targeted therapies are currently focusing on anticancer drug development and they are the cornerstone of precision Medicine to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases.

Precision medicine or personalized medicine is an approach to individual care for selecting treatment that are helpful to the patients based on a genetic understanding of their disease. Depending upon the type of cancer, its size and proliferation, combination of Treatment surgery, Chemotherapy, Radiation therapy and Immunotherapy may vary. But in precision medicine, information about genetic changes in the tumor can be helping to decide the Treatment.