Targeted Therapy: A New Era in Tumor Management

Authors

  • Dr. Amiera Alnour Faculty of Dentistry - Damascus University.

Keywords:

Targeted Therapy, Cancer, Traditional Therapy.

Abstract

Cancer is considered one of the most dramatic diseases affecting human beings nowadays. Through the progression of technology and the new civilization Human is surrounded by  multi-carcinogenesis world, that composite an essential part in whatsoever we consume from food to drink to the air and even all the stress that play an important role in many diseases in a way it destroys the immune system, so we are offended to have diseases, cancer is the most important because of what it holds from a lot of suffering for the patients and his relatives. Science go for the battle, so there are the surgical, radio and chemo therapy. Each one of them improve in  a way or another patients’ pain, may it reveals so many damaged side effects, harming another intact tissues and organ. That what leads science for more researches to define a new method or technique that could kill only targeted cells, that is the cancerous cells. And that is how it comes, targeted therapy. These drugs are now a component of therapy for many common malignancies, including breast, colorectal, lung, and pancreatic cancers, as well as lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple myeloma.

 

 

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Published

2024-06-12

How to Cite

Targeted Therapy: A New Era in Tumor Management. (2024). Damascus University Journal for Medical Sciences, 40(2). https://journal.damascusuniversity.edu.sy/index.php/heaj/article/view/7830