Molecular Therapies of Cancer

• Main Author: Weber, Georg F. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Laboratory medicine.; Oncology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Laboratory Medicine.

Molecular Therapies of Cancer comprehensively covers the molecular mechanisms of anti-cancer drug actions in a comparably systematic fashion. While there is currently available a great deal of literature on anti-cancer drugs, books on the subject are often concoctions of invited review articles supe...

Table of Contents:

• DNA Damaging Drugs
• Drugs that Suppress Proliferation
• Molecular Inhibitors of Growth Signals
• Anti-Metastasis Therapy
• Induction of Senesence
• Combination Chemotherapy
• Gene Therapy
• Drugs with Diverse Modes of Action
• Hormone Therapy
• Immunotherapy
• Anti-Angiogenesis
• Drug Delivery and Drug Transport
• Drug Metabolism
• Prodrug Activation
• Drug Resistance
• Protection from Adverse Effects
• Pain Management
• Preventative Treatment.