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Molecular Targeting Agents in Cancer Therapy: Science and Society
- Source :
- Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention. 13:1705-1708
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention, 2012.
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Abstract
- The inception of targeted agents has revolutionized the cancer therapy paradigm, both for physicians and patients. A large number of molecular targeted agents for cancer therapy are currently available for clinical use today. Many more are in making, but there are issues that remain to be resolved for the scientific as well as social community before the recommendation of their widespread use in may clinical scenarios can be done, one such issue being cost and cost effectiveness, others being resistance and lack of sustained efficacy. With the current knowledge about available targeted agents, the growing knowledge of intricate molecular pathways and unfolding of wider spectrum of molecular targets that can really matter in the disease control, calls for only the just use of the agents available now, drug companies need to make a serious attempt to reduce the cost of the agents. Research should focus on agents that show sustained responses in preclinical data. More needs to be done in laboratories and by the pharmaceutical industries, before we can truly claim to have entered a new era of targeted therapy in cancer care.
- Subjects :
- Cancer Research
medicine.medical_specialty
Biomedical Research
Drug Industry
Epidemiology
Cost effectiveness
Cost-Benefit Analysis
medicine.medical_treatment
Internet privacy
Alternative medicine
Cancer therapy
Pharmacology
Targeted therapy
Molecular targeting
Neoplasms
medicine
Humans
Molecular Targeted Therapy
Drug Approval
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Cancer
medicine.disease
Preclinical data
Oncology
Molecular targets
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15137368
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4f46a129183c95890874688b247244e8
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.7314/apjcp.2012.13.4.1705