Targeted therapy is a cancer treatment that uses drugs to prevent the cancer from growing and spreading. Doctors often use targeted therapy with chemotherapy and other treatments. Knowing how cancer cells develop helps you understand how targeted therapy works.
A study presented at # ASCO17 shows the first cancer medication that is not specific for a single type but focuses on a specific genetic abnormality found in a variety of tumor types.
Read the study in English here: http://bit.ly/2qUzyKD