Table 1.
Cancer treatment modalities.
Cancer treatment modality | Prior to 1970 | 1970 to 2023 | Future |
---|---|---|---|
Surgery | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Radiation therapy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Chemotherapy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Pharmacological hormone therapy | ✓ | ✓ | |
Treatments targeting genes with oncogenic alterations and related signaling pathways | ✓ | ✓ | |
Photodynamic therapy | ✓ | ✓ | |
Antibody drug conjugates | ✓ | ✓ | |
Immune check point inhibitors | ✓ | ✓ | |
Bispecific T-cell engagers | ✓ | ✓ | |
Oncolytic virus therapy | ✓ | ✓ | |
Chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy | ✓ | ✓ |