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Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. We use chemotherapy because it works, but no one has ever come home from chemo treatment and gone "That was fun!" Let's look at the new targeted therapies and personalized treatments for cancer that doctors are developing for clinical use. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Jaap Westera, Jason A Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Kevin Bealer, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi, Silas Emrys ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/chemotherapy/ https://www.aacr.org/patients-caregivers/about-cancer/what-is-cancer/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5553954/ https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/drugs/abvd https://nssg.oxford-haematology.org.uk/lymphoma/documents/lymphoma-chemo-protocols/L-8%20-%20abvd.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1074552110001614?via%3Dihub https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/treatment/drugs/doxorubicin https://www.icr.ac.uk/blogs/science-talk/page-details/what-are-combination-therapies-for-cancer-treatment https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/adjuvant-therapy https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/treatment/palliative https://www.cancerdata.nhs.uk/treatments https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/targeted-therapies https://molecular-cancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12943-018-0804-2 https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/treatment/drugs/trastuzumab https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/treatment/drugs/pembrolizumab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3nPkfnGG1w https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/treatment/personalised-medicine https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/triple-negative.htm https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/genetics/brca-fact-sheet -are-brca1-and-brca2 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2105215 Images: https://www.gettyimages.com/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chemotherapy_bottles_NCI.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aspirin-B-3D-balls.png https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-Chemical-structures-of-FDA-approved-Bcr-Abl-inhibitors-B-design-of-GZD856-as-new_fig1_314273551 https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/9/4774 https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/13/10684 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BRCA1_and_BRCA2_mutations_and_absolute_cancer_risk.jpg https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/15/14/3642