Advances in Cancer Drug Discovery. / Progressi nella scoperta di farmaci contro il cancro.
Advances in Cancer Drug Discovery. The process of the ENEA patent RM2012A000637 can be very useful in analyzing the image applied to cancer diagnosis and therapy. / Progressi nella scoperta di farmaci contro il cancro. Il procedimento del brevetto ENEA RM2012A000637 può essere molto utile nell'analisi dell'immagine applicata alla diagnosi e terapia del cancro. Segnalato dal Dott. Giuseppe Cotellessa / Reported by Dr. Giuseppe Cotellessa For many years, the only available options for treating cancer were to surgically remove it or to kill the rapidly dividing cells with cytotoxic chemicals or radiotherapy. These were blunt tools compared to today’s therapeutic strategies. Although all three modalities still play a vital role, their use is now often in combination with a more sophisticated generation of targeted drugs and immunotherapies. Indeed, there is now said to be five pillars of cancer treatment: surgery, radiotherapy, cytotoxic chemotherapy, precision th...