A Comprehensive Review of Targeted Therapies for Skin Cancer

Skin cancer is a disease that is life-threatening for anybody and has that potential to cause morbidity and mortality to individuals suffering from it, and this disease is not easy to cure.For many years, people have been diagnosed with skin cancer, because of many factors like prolonged UV exposure, chemicals and environmental causes and treatment for skin cancer includes chemotherapy and surgery which is effective to some extent.But this review is highlighted for skin cancer and demonstrating the treatment for it, which is most likely to cure because somehow with advanced science, molecular biology, and cancer genetics, scientists have introduced this method as a cure for skin cancer, which is targeted therapy.This directly acts on the site of cause and tries not to harm healthy cells.This includes some inhibitors like BRAF, MEK, the hedgehog pathway, PD-1, mTOR, etc.These treatment approaches help in personalised medicines for individuals with respect to their genetic profile to achieve remarkable progress with less toxicity and more effective outcomes.This review has explained therapy based on small molecule inhibitors and monoclonal antibodies.Targeted therapies ensure promising, revolutionizing treatment and promoting a quality of life to patients and society.