New treatments for cancer are being developed quickly. The pace of approval for novel drugs, immunotherapies, and other innovations has gone from 10 years ago to one a week. The therapies are not the final victory in the war on cancer that politicians have promised. The first treatments focused on the specific biology of small-cell lung cancer are some of the smaller wins.
There are many new tools that target genes and are coupled with diagnostic tests that probe tumor cells or blood for these markers. Just keeping up with breast cancer is not easy, says Haddad.
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