Platinum and Other Heavy Metal Compounds in Cancer Chemotherapy Molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bonetti, Andrea (Editor), Leone, Roberto (Editor), Muggia, Franco M. (Editor), Howell, Stephen B. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2009.
• Series: Cancer Drug Discovery and Development
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Pharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

The platinum-containing chemotherapeutic agents remain key components of many of the most effective regimens for the treatment of cancer. New information about the chemistry, pharmacology and molecular mechanisms by which these drugs work is leading to both the development of new drugs and more effe...