Why personalized combination therapy?
Cancer has historically been treated using standard, single-drug therapies to target specific cancers, and even when using personalized cancer therapy, the vast majority of treatments are performed using targeted monotherapies. Though far superior to standard therapies in that a tumor’s genetic mutation is matched to a specific drug therapy, monotherapies are also deficient in that it is rare that a cancerous tumor has only one mutation that requires a matching therapy. Recently, it has been shown that when the right combination of multiple drugs is used to match multiple mutations, cancer treatment is more effective.
Each drug is able to target individual cancer mutations to improve treatment, and each drug can be used with the right dose to reduce side effects. Until now, matched combination therapy was not available outside of research, mainly because there are millions of possible drug combinations that are difficult for doctors to analyze. That is where CureMatch comes in. Our goal is to make matched combination therapy a clinical reality for oncologists and patients worldwide.