The Difference between Targeted Drug Therapies and Targeted-Drug Therapies

Abstract

The term “targeted” is being used to describe various new drugs and therapies with an intent to suggest that such drugs exhibit higher specificity with respect to the disease to be treated. The reality, however is that the use of all such recently denoted drugs is associated with large number often very serious undesirable side effects. It is concluded that using the term “targeted” when it relates to the intent of what the drug is to do and ignoring the fact that the drug’s action is generally distributed throughout the body rather than acting on the locus of the disease is misleading