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Metronomic Chemotherapy Pharmacology and Clinical Applications /

This book analyzes all aspects of metronomic chemotherapy, a new approach involving low-dose, long-term, and frequently administered therapy that has preclinical and clinical activity in various tumors. After an opening section on the pharmacological bases of metronomic chemotherapy, including its a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Bocci, Guido (Editor ), Francia, Giulio (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Pharmacological bases of metronomic chemotherapy: The metronomic concept
  • Antiangiogenic effects of metronomic chemotherapy
  • Effects of metronomic chemotherapy on immunity
  • Other proposed mechanism of action of metronomic chemotherapy. Part II: Preclinical studies of metronomic chemotherapy: Alkylating agents
  • Camptothecins
  • Fluoropyrimidines
  • Taxanes
  • Vinca alkaloids
  • Anthracyclines
  • Other drugs
  • Part III. Drugs combined with metronomic chemotherapy in preclinical studies: Tyrosine kinase inhibitors
  • Monoclonal antibodies
  • Tumor vaccines
  • Other drugs. Part IV. Clinical activity of metronomic chemotherapy: Breast cancers
  • Prostate cancers
  • Gastrointestinal cancers
  • CNS cancers
  • Pediatric malignancies
  • Sarcomas
  • Hematological cancers
  • Liver cancers
  • Gynecologic Cancers
  • Lung cancers
  • Other cancers. Part V: Clinical Pharmacology of metronomic chemotherapy: Pharmacokinetics of metronomic chemotherapy
  • Pharmacodynamics of metronomic chemotherapy
  • Pharmacogenetics of metronomic chemotherapy
  • Pharmacoeconomics of metronomic chemotherapy and its social impact
  • Adverse drug reactions of metronomic chemotherapy. Part VI:  Metronomic chemotherapy in veterinarian clinic: Clinical studies of metronomic chemotherapy alone
  • Clinical studies of metronomic chemotherapy and other drugs.