Hello Doc, My name is Rana. I am doing a biology research in school about monoclonal antibodies, and I was hoping you can help me in it if you can. my questions are : How monoclonal antibodies can help in cancer therapy? and how does this therapy work? Since when this therapy had been used and how many people improved or were cured because of it? Thank you
Hi Reyna. All cells in the body have many receptors present on the surface and inside the cell. These are necessary for their normal functioning. Cancer cells utilize some of these receptors to enhance their growth and stay immortal. So we as oncologists have started to use these receptors for treating cancer by blocking these receptors. That is done by using monoclonal antibodies and is called targeted therapy. It was started in the 90s with a Chat Doctor.  Now there is a plethora of such