Guide To Colon Cancer Diagnosis And Treatment Options

Targeted Drug Therapy

An individual who has developed colon cancer may need to receive targeted drug therapy to treat their malignancy. Targeted drug therapy is treatment with drugs that target specific abnormal properties of tumor cells to kill them. By disrupting the process that allows these abnormalities to exist in the cancer cells, targeted drug therapy can stop cancer from growing. In most cases, targeted drug therapy is combined with chemotherapy to treat colon cancer. One of the most popular targeted drug therapies used for the treatment of colon cancer are drugs that target the formation of blood vessels or vascular endothelial growth factor, which disable this protein from working. The drugs that use this mechanism are bevacizumab, Ziv-aflibercept, and ramucirumab. Another protein that can be targeted with drugs such as cetuximab and panitumumab to treat colon cancer is the epidermal growth factor receptor.

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