Genomics and Pharmacogenomics in Anticancer Drug Development and Clinical Response

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Innocenti, Federico (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2009.
• Series: Cancer Drug Discovery and Development™
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Human genetics.; Pharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Human Genetics.

The availability of new molecular approaches to the selection of drug therapy is an emerging need, as the traditional approach based on the evaluation of patient and tumor characteristics is clearly far from optimal. Many, and in most cases the majority of treated patients do not have significant be...