Abstract

TARGATED DRUG THERAPY

Ishika D. Pakade, Supriya S. Barewar, Pooja R. Hatwar*, Ravindrakumar L. Bakal, Prashant G. Shelke

ABSTRACT

Cancer is one of the most common causes of death, taking nearly 7 million lives each year worldwide death also a major problem of the recent time. In this review the various treatment options available are described. Cancer is a complaint characterized by unbridled or abnormal cell proliferation. Cancer treatment can be done by surgery, chemotherapy and radiation remedy or combination of this remedy is also used depending upon the severity of cancer. As chemotherapy targets fleetly dividing cell unfortunately hair follicle cells, red bone gist cells, and cells lining the gastrointestinal tract also are fleetly dividing. Hence, the side goods of chemotherapy include hair loss due to death of hair follicle cells, vomiting and nausea due to death of cells lining the stomach and bowel, and vulnerability to infection due to braked product of white blood cells in red bone gist. Targeted remedy medicines do not work in the same ways as standard chemotherapy medicines. They are frequently suitable to attack cancer cells while doing lower damage to normal cells by going after the cancer cells’ inner workings i.e. the programming that sets them piecemeal from normal, healthy cells. In this review composition we have bandied about targeted remedies for cancer treatment.

Keywords: Target therapy, Drugs, Monoclonal antibodies, Small molecule therapy, Apoptosis.