What’s the Difference Between Targeted Therapy and Chemotherapy?
When you and your doctor talk about your treatment, you may hear terms such as “targeted therapy” and “chemotherapy”. Do you know the differences between how these treatments treat cancer and their side effects? Read below to learn more about these types of treatments.
Introduction to Chemotherapy Versus Targeted Therapy
- American Cancer Society: Unlike chemotherapy, targeted therapy affects features of cells that make them cancerous
- American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and Jyoti Patel, MD (video): Dr. Jyoti Patel discusses how targeted therapies provide a more personalized, precise type of medicine
Targeted Therapy for Different Types of Breast Cancer
- Paraic Kenny, PhD (video): Dr. Paraic Kenny describes the different types of targeted therapy for use in breast cancer
- American Cancer Society: There are many types of targeted therapy for breast cancer that is HER2 positive, hormone receptor positive and HER2 negative, or triple negative, and each type of targeted therapy has different side effects
MBC Clinical Trials
- Metastatic Trial Search: MBC Trials for Targeted Therapy
- Metastatic Trial Search: MBC Trials for Chemotherapy