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What are the advantages of molecular targeted anticancer drugs compared with traditional anticancer drugs?

The quality of life is significantly higher than that of chemotherapy. Patients will live a very happy life for quite some time like normal people. At present, the principle of treatment is that first-line chemotherapy can be given to patients with gene mutation and patients without mutation.

If traditional anticancer drugs refer to traditional Chinese medicine and folk remedies, then I can tell you that these can't be called anticancer drugs. If traditional anticancer drugs refer to chemotherapy, then molecular targeted drugs undoubtedly have great advantages. If the patient has the corresponding gene mutation, targeted drugs can be used.