The future of radiation tends to be what we call stereotactic radiation, which focuses on the tumor and applies large doses at one time as opposed to traditional radiation which is small doses over a longer time, ... There is a gamma knife that's dedicated to treating brain lesions where, instead of radiating the brain in a three-week period, it's a one-time focused, high-powered type treatment.
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Like we handle antibodies against foreign proteins and we only get viruses like measles and chicken pox once, you can form antibodies against hundreds of things on the cells, ... The future is going tobe the development of those targeted therapies so that we will evaluate cancer cells in a much different way. We will do enzyme profiles and protein profiles to come up with almost a blueprint of the cancer and pick and choose those things that are available.David Greenwald
The drugs that are being developed are being developed to target specific protein or enzyme systems in the cell that is unique to the particular cancer cell that normal cells don't feature, ... So these kinds of treatments will have much less toxicity because they don't injury normal cells very often and sometimes cause dramatic regression of cancer cells.
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