New Therapies Over Chemotherapy To Watch For In The Near Future

I was just sent this link and wanted to repost it here because it is informative and hopeful.

There are many researchers working on molecular types of therapies over chemotherapy to treat cancers. One such molecular therapy that is showing 83% rate of success is in those with a certain type of blood cancer -- a leukemia, and in a certain type of gastrointestinal cancer. The approach doesn't use chemotherapy at all. It comes in a pill format that targets a specific homogenous (single source, single type of cell) cancer cell. It hopefully means that in the future, similar treatments will be out there for people with heterogenous (multiple type of cell and possible source) cancer tumors like those found in breast and prostate cancers.

Here is the article that was sent to me which is worth the read:

http://news.yahoo.com/no-more-chemo-doctors-not-far-fetched-094524778.html