Targeted Therapy for Cancer: Cure for More
Identify the enemy, target, and attack—this is the method used in the fight against cancer in the 21st century. By identifying specific targets on the cancer cells and discovering drugs that work on those targets, cancer treatment has now advanced from a “one size fits all” approach to a more personalized one. For several decades, chemotherapy had been the mainstay of cancer treatment. The discovery of drugs used to kill cancer cells was incidental during World War II. Two scientists, Louis Goodman, and Alfred Gilman, were sent to study the effects of chemicals used in warfare. Thousands were killed by…