Targeted therapy is a treatment that uses drugs or other substances to identify and
attack specific cancer cells without harming normal cells.
Targeted therapy is a type of treatment that uses drugs or other substances to identify and attack
specific cancer cells without harming normal cells.
All are examples of translational researchers converting molecular knowledge
about specific cancer cells into effective, targeted therapies.
«With further understanding of these 3D models, we plan to use them to study the development, invasion, metastasis and treatment of cancer
using specific cancer cells from patients,» says Professor Sun.
«If you knock down DAZAP1, then most of the genes involved
in specific cancer cell signaling, cell death, and DNA repair are affected,» said Rajarshi Choudhury, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in the department of pharmacology and first author of the study.
Current treatments involve targeting and
killing specific cancer cells, but new research points to the efficacy of an ecological approach to curing the disease.
Per this study, the researchers believed that the anthocyanins found in the hibiscus tea were responsible for slowing the growth
of specific cancer cells.
Although Coley couldn't explain precisely why or how his toxins worked, modern immunotherapy treatments help T - cells in the immune system to
recognize specific cancer cells and attack them.
New radiation treatment methods, currently under development, can precisely target the radiation to
specific cancer cells or even specific locations within those cells.
This «liquid biopsy,» described in a recent issue of the journal Nanotechnology, could become the basis of a simple lab test that could quickly detect early signs of metastasis and help physicians select treatments targeted at
the specific cancer cells identified.
CAR - T immunotherapy involves genetically outfitting a patient's immune cells with a new artificial gene, a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), which allows the cells to recognize and attack
specific cancer cells.