A decade of targeted therapy for non-small cell lung cancer
Journal Title: Journal of Pulmonology and Respiratory Research - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Chemotherapy is one of the main treatment options for cancer. However, chemotherapeutic agents usually suffer from poor pharmaceutical properties that restrict their use. Targeted therapy drugs have been developed to specifically target changes in cancer cells that help these cells to grow. Such drugs often work when standard chemotherapeutic drugs do not, they often have less severe side effects and they are most often used for advanced cancers. The objective of this article is to give an overview about the 16 FDA-approved targeted therapy drugs to treat non-small cell lung cancer.
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Khalid Abu Ajaj
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