AI Article Synopsis
- Targeted treatment is a special therapy that focuses on a specific part of cancer to help patients better.
- Doctors usually don’t recommend this kind of treatment for a type of cancer called MPM, but new medicines have been tested since the last recommendations were made.
- This review looks at how these new treatments can help people with mesothelioma, a type of cancer caused by asbestos.
Article Abstract
Targeted treatment is a therapy directed at a specific molecular target close to a hallmark of cancer. The target should be measurable with a biomarker and measurement of the target should correlate with clinical outcome when targeted treatment is administered. Current clinical guidelines do not recommend targeted or biological therapy in MPM. However, since these recommendations came out, new agents have been investigated in MPM. This review updates the use of targeted and biological treatment in patients with mesothelioma.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4522581 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jare.2014.11.012 | DOI Listing |
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