Cancer chemotherapy and beyond: Current status, drug candidates, associated risks and progress in targeted therapeutics.

ABSTRACT: Cancer is an abnormal state of cells where they undergo uncontrolled proliferation and produce aggressive malignancies that causes millions of deaths every year. With the new understanding of the molecular mechanism(s) of disease progression, our knowledge about the disease is snowballing, leading to the evolution of many new therapeutic regimes and their successive trials. In the past few decades, various combinations of therapies have been proposed and are presently employed in the treatment of diverse cancers. Targeted drug therapy, immunotherapy, and personalized medicines are now largely being employed, which were not common a few years back. The field of cancer discoveries and therapeutics are evolving fast as cancer type-specific biomarkers are progressively being identified and sev

SUBMITTER: Anand U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10310991 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature