The Effective Role of Targeted Therapy in Advanced Colorectal Cancer
Though chemotherapy is the major strategy to manage patients with advanced-stage colorectal cancer (CRC), the main challenge is the progression of CRC despite using combination of different chemotherapeutic agents. So, to overcome this challenge, a new class Of therapy was developed naming "Tar...
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College of Pharmacy / Mustansiriyah University,
2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | Though chemotherapy is the major strategy to manage patients with advanced-stage colorectal cancer (CRC), the main challenge is the progression of CRC despite using combination of different chemotherapeutic agents. So, to overcome this challenge, a new class Of therapy was developed naming "Targeted-therapy". This class of drugs aim to target specific overexpressed or aberrant enzyme, receptor, or gene that have critical role in the growth and survival of colorectal cancerous cells. So that, by using combination of traditional strategy (chemotherapy) and targeted-drug, this will lead to improve survival and prevent the progression of advanced CRC |
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| Item Description: | 10.32947/ajps.v22i2.835 1815-0993 2959-183X |