Targeted Therapy for Cancer - NCI
Targeted therapy is a type of cancer treatment that targets the changes in cancer cells that help them grow, divide, and spread. Learn how targeted therapy works against cancer and about side effects that may occur.
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Targeted therapy is a type of cancer treatment that targets the changes in cancer cells that help them grow, divide, and spread. Learn how targeted therapy works against cancer and about side effects that may occur.
Targeted therapy is a type of cancer treatment that targets the changes in cancer cells that help them grow, divide, and spread. Learn more about targeted therapy drugs that have been approved by the FDA to treat spec...
A type of treatment that uses drugs or other substances to target specific molecules that cancer cells need to survive and spread. Targeted therapies work in different ways to treat cancer.
This page lists the different cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and targeted therapy and takes you to more information about each type.
Radiation therapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses high doses of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Learn about the types of radiation, why side effects happen, which ones you might have, and more.
Combining a procedure called TACE with an immunotherapy drug and angiogenesis inhibitor may be a new standard treatment for some people with liver cancer.
Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that helps your immune system fight cancer. Learn about the types of immunotherapy and what you can expect during treatment.
Targeted therapies have immensely changed how cancer is studied and treated, and have fostered the precision medicine approach: treatment tailored to the unique genetic changes in an individual’s cancer cells.
A CAR T-cell therapy that targets GD2 on cancer cells shrank tumors—sometimes for long periods—in children and young adults with diffuse midline gliomas.
Biomarker testing, also called tumor testing, tumor profiling, or tumor genetic testing, finds changes in your cancer that could help your doctor choose a cancer treatment for you.