| Currently there aren’t any remedies to target cancer cells selectively. Most drugs that exterminate rapidly proliferating
cancer cells can also eradicate normal healthy cells. Even monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), present best treatment
modalities in the targeted cancer immunotherapy, fail to destroy cancer cells specifically and a lot of mechanismdependent
or independent toxicities have been reported. Targeting tumor cells specifically needs necessary strategies to
progress the cancer therapies. Advanced researches in cancer biology have been illustrated that cancer cells have usually
some genes that are over- or under-expressed. To exterminate tumor cells specifically, the current effort puts forward a
novel strategy to target cancer cells more selectively using Enzyme Activated Prodrugs (EAP), which can be activated by
over-expressed enzymes of cancer cells. Mutations in genes and chromosomes are known triggers for the development of
human cancers. The mutations in gene profile could over- or under-express several enzymes which can be used in cancer
targeting by EAP. |