Treating Lung Cancer with Targeted Therapy: How These Groundbreaking Drugs Work
In this video, lung oncologist Jorge Gomez, MD, talks about targeted therapies and how they’re used to treat lung cancer.
Treatments for lung cancer have improved significantly over the last decade. During the last 10 years, newer medications have emerged that are helping people live longer and better quality lives. One of those discoveries was targeted therapies.
Because targeted therapies focus on killing cancer cells and spare the healthy cells, they tend to cause less side effects than chemotherapy.
- Jorge Gomez, MDDr. Gomez is a Hematologist and Oncologist at Mount Sinai Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Hematology, and Medical Oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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