'CEO Today' Interview10 Jul 2018 12:56
Thanks for sharing this JJP. This is an exerpt for anyone who hasn't had a chance to read it all- from Satu.
'Worldwide, cancer is the second leading cause of death after heart disease. New technologies and tools have revolutionised our understanding of cancer and have allowed companies, such as ValiRx to develop increasingly more specific and targeted approaches to the disease. From a technical point of view, it is reasonable to expect science to be able to one day turn most cancers into either curable or manageable diseases. Recent developments, exemplified by the Human Genome database, have hugely accelerated the development of novel, effective and more precise treatments.
Indeed, whilst established cancer treatments such as surgery, radiation and chemotherapy are still improving, the great excitement in the cancer arena today and for the future lies in the development of novel and targeted therapies, otherwise known as “Precision Medicine”. This targeted, personalised medicine includes early stage diagnosis of every specific cancer, tailor-made therapeutic intervention and the careful monitoring of progress. With the development of target-based agents primed to attack only identified cancer cells, higher response rates for treatments, as well as less toxic and more effective outcomes, are now and will increasingly become possible. New drugs in this group—such as those in ValiRx’s pipeline—promise to greatly improve outcomes for cancer patients.
Caught early and with the right therapeutic and technological approaches, several cancers will become highly treatable'.