The Anticancer Drugs
2nd Edition
Published on 1. January 1994
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-0-19-506738-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Anticancer Drugs provide a review of the pharmacology, mechanisms of action, development of resistance, and toxicity for cancer chemotherapeutic agents.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
87 line drawings, bibliography
ISBN-13
978-0-19-506738-5 (9780195067385)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Part I: Principles of Cancer Chemotherapy; The cancer problem; Some milestones in the development of cancer chemotherapy; Determinants of drug responsiveness; Resistance to anticancer drugs; Part II: The Anticancer Drugs; Antimetabolites; Covalent DNA binding drugs; Non-covalent DNA binding drugs; Inhibitors of chromatin function; Drugs affecting endocrine function; Part III: Clinical Cancer Chemotherapy; Choice of drugs for cancer chemotherapy; Part IV: New Directions in Cancer Chemotherapy; Anticancer drug development; Biological treatments of cancer; Potential targets for new anticancer drugs.