DOTmed March 31, 2025
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As humanity’s understanding of illnesses has grown, so has the desire for treatments that precisely target disease while sparing healthy tissues and organs. In cancer, where tumors arise from a patient’s own once-healthy cells, the challenge of selectively targeting and destroying the disease becomes even more complex. The ability to identify unique tumor properties has long been seen as a key to finding a cure.
Surgery was the first method of cancer therapy, initially performed with crude instruments but always with the intent to preserve unaffected tissues. A more effective breakthrough in cancer treatment came in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the birth of radiation...