Targeted therapies are cancer medications that work more selectively than standard chemotherapy medications. They do this by targeting specific molecules or genetic changes in cancer cells in order to ...

Lung cancer in never-smokers exhibits distinct biological characteristics, often leading to late-stage diagnoses due to lack of screening. Targeted therapies, guided by molecular testing, offer ...

Targeted therapies are medicines to treat cancer. They work differently than standard chemotherapy. Instead of killing all fast-growing cells or keeping them from dividing, targeted therapies work ...

A team of Australian researchers have developed a new targeted therapeutic approach that could improve treatment for ...

Investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have opened a clinical trial that will look at whether ...

Approximately 25-30% of lung cancer patients lack mutations targeted by current therapies, necessitating novel approaches. New targets, including MTAP deletions, SMARC4, and p53 mutations, show ...

For the past 20 years, many of the dramatic improvements in cancer outcomes can be attributed to personalized cancer treatments based upon DNA mutations in a tumor. Targeted therapies — often one pill ...

A University of Missouri scientist develops a cancer “flashlight” that helps identify which patients are most likely to ...

Leading cancer researchers from UC San Francisco presented talks about advances in targeted therapies, cancer genomics, using AI to personalize cancer treatment, improving diagnosis of hard-to-treat ...

A study led by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center found that normal cells surrounding a tumor, known as cancer-associated ...

Cancer treatment has come a long way since the days of just chemotherapy. Today, many people are hearing about targeted therapy and immunotherapy, which are smarter, more precise ways to treat cancer.