Principles of Cancer Treatment and Anticancer Drug Development

• Main Author: Link, Wolfgang (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Cancer research.; Molecular biology.; Pharmaceutical technology.; Biomedical engineering.; Laboratory medicine.; Drug resistance.; Cancer Research.; Molecular Medicine.; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.; Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology.; Laboratory Medicine.; Drug Resistance.

This book explains how current medicines against cancer work and how we find new ones. It provides an easy-to-understand overview of current options to treat patients with cancer, which includes Surgery, Radiation therapy, Chemotherapy, Targeted therapy and Immunotherapy. The efficiency of all these...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Cancer Therapy
• Cancer drug resistance
• Drug Discovery and Development
• Economic and social implications of modern drug discovery. Index.