New drugs have blunted debilitating effects of chemotherapy that kept patients bed bound during treatment or left them with lasting disabilities. Targeted therapies have improved survival rates, the paper noted.

• 据报道,在治疗期间化疗将患者束缚在床上或致使他们长期无力,新药物已经减弱了化疗带给患者的这些虚弱感。目标疗法大大提高了存活率。