Cancer chemotherapy and biotherapy : principles and practice /
"Updated to include the newest drugs and those currently in development, Cancer Chemotherapy and Biotherapy, Fifth Edition is a comprehensive reference on the preclinical and clinical pharmacology of anticancer agents. Organized by drug class, the book provides the latest information on all dru...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
©2011.
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Edición: | 5th ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Clinical strategies for cancer treatment: the role of drugs
- Target identification and drug discovery
- Clinical drug development and marketing approval
- Principles of pharmacokinetics
- Delivering anticancer drugs to brain tumors
- Pharmacogenetics
- Physical barriers to drug delivery
- Antifolates
- 5-fluoropyrimidines
- Cytidine analogues
- Purine antimetabolites
- Hydroxyurea
- Antimitotic drugs
- Alkylating agents
- Platinum analogues
- Bleomycin and other antitumor antibiotics
- Topoisomerase I-targeting drugs
- Topoisomerase II inhibitors: anthracyclines
- Topoisomerase II inhibitors: the epipodophyllotoxins
- Asparaginase
- Proteasome inhibitors
- Histone deacetylase inhibitors in oncology
- Differentiating agents
- Arsenic trioxide
- Antibodies
- Inhibitors of tumor angiogenesis
- Epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors
- HER2 inhibitors
- Molecular targeted drugs
- Signaling inhibitors: IGFR, PI3K pathway, embryonic signaling inhibitors, and mitotic kinase inhibitors
- Cytokine therapy for cancer
- Cancer vaccines
- Adoptive cellular therapies
- Thalidomide and its analogs in the treatment of hematologic malignancies, including multiple myeloma, and solid tumors
- Hormonal therapy of breast cancer
- Hormone therapy for prostate cancer
- Drug therapy of pain in cancer patients
- Hematopoietic growth factors
- Antinausea medications
- Bisphosphonates and other bone-targeted therapies
- Intravenous access and catheter management
- Late effects of cancer chemotherapy
- Infertility after cancer chemotherapy.