In some cancers, anti-cancer drugs are working better than painful chemotherapies. Ibrutinib is one such drug that worked better in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia than standard chemotherapy, a study revealed. For most cancers, especially solid tumors, chemotherapy is the only therapeutic resort. However, chemotherapy targets cancerous cell as well as affect normal cells resulting in a high amount of toxic effect.
Keeping in mind the post-therapeutic trauma associated with chemotherapy, it is high time for cancer researchers to develop new ways of treating cancer that do not involve chemo. Progress is also being made toward identifying types of cancer that do not need chemotherapy as a treatment or has already become resistant to chemotherapy. In a new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists from MD Anderson Cancer Center, U.S. found that some…
