Targeted Therapy in Oncology – Rethinking the Management of Cancer

Cancer is a multifactorial disease. It is a group of illnesses having traits, causes, and behaviours. For many years, everyone has utilised cancer treatment, which includes radiation to decreastumours, chemotherapy to kill quickly growing cells, and surgery to remove the tumour. Even while these treatments are still effective today, science has advanced us to the era of targeted therapy, a special kind of cancer treatment that focusses on the particular changes that set cancer cells apart from healthy cells. There is no one-size-fits-all strategy. Rather, it looks at what’s going on inside the cancer cells and tries to stop those aberrant processes. In oncology, it is one of the cornerstones of what is now known as personalised or precision medicine. Let’s examine targeted therapy in more detail, including how it works and what it means for patients. What Is Targeted Therapy? Simply put, targeted therapy is a cure that checks the growth and spread of cancer by disrupting particular mol...