Towards the small and the beautiful: Smart targeting and smart technologies for novel cancer treatments

摘要

This is an exciting time for Cancer Pharmacology. There is convergence of different approaches to disease treatment, for example design of molecules against cancer-specific targets combined with ground breaking delivery methods. Emergence of these novel treatments is facilitated by the ability to mine large scale data from patient cohorts to identify disease subgroups; and driven by the need to develop personalized treatment for patients. Rapid advances in technology provide tools which improve drug delivery and are used for translation to the clinic. Therefore drugs which are tightly targeted are continuously developed - with better efficacy and less side effects.