Love Employee Overview ADCs - antigen-drug conjugants - are among the hottest developments in cancer treatments. In combination with other drugs, they hold the promise of replacing chemotherapy on a whole host of cancers, because, unlike chemo, which is systemic and comes with severe side effects, ADCs target specific tumors with minimal impacts on healthy tissue. Sometimes called "Smart chemo," and "Cancer guided missiles," ADC's work by delivering a combination of an antibody and a cancer-cell killer to a ...