What are the Major Breakthroughs in Cancer Therapy? Dr. Manish Singhal
Antibody Drug Conjugates These are such antibodies with which chemotherapy drugs have been attached These antibodies only identify the cancer cell
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Trastuzumab Duristica, NHER2 which is used in Breast cancer and its results are unprecedented.
Sacituzumab, Govitecan, which is used in Breast Cancer and Bladder Cancer.
Enfortumab Vedotin and Brentuximab Vedotin, which is going to be launched in India.
Immunotherapy has changed the way we look at cancer because it used to be our dream to kill a cancer cell with the help of an immune system, which has become a reality today.
We identify the COVID-19 virus as an artificial virus and try to remove it. Similarly, your immune system tries to identify it. Immunotherapy boosts it and helps it to get rid of cancer.
Targeted Therapies depend on the molecular basis. The DNA of cancer cells is different from the DNA of normal cells.
Some mutations in the DNA are very important for the survival of cancer cells.
Scientists have developed targeted therapies against these mutations, the most advantage of which I would say is found in Lung Cancer.
Personalized Cancer Vaccine and CAR T-Cell Therapy.
This is also a very new field in which some T-cells are extracted from your immune system, and cancer-related antigens are inserted in them through bioengineering.
Personalized Cancer Vaccine is taken with your tumor. the biopsy of your tumor will be done on your white blood cells. immune cells will be removed from the blood by doing leukapheresis.
Proton Therapy
Usually, radiation is used with photons. It is impossible to stop or bend a photon particle. due to which there are side effects. the surrounding structures also get radiation therapy.
The overall radiation spill, the radiation that affects the surrounding structures, the normal structures, can be controlled very well through the proton. Therefore, proton therapy is also the fifth largest invention that can be used for cancer patients and is being used.