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Targeted therapy is a type of cancer treatment that targets proteins that control how cancer cells grow, divide, and spread.
Targeted drugs often work by blocking cancer cells from copying themselves. This means they can help stop a cancer cell from dividing and making new cancer cells.
Some targeted therapies are drugs are pills or capsules that you can swallow. Monoclonal antibodies are usually given through a needle in a blood vein.
Chemotherapy kills fast-growing cells—both cancerous and non-cancerous—in the body. Immunotherapy helps the immune system do a better job of identifying cancer cells so it can attack and kill them.
As clinical trial are ongoing more cancers are now being treated with targeted therapy. It doesn't work for all types of cancer or for all people with cancer. There are also cost implications for receiving some of these drugs.