Drugs Affecting Growth of Tumours

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pinedo, Herbert M. (Editor), Smorenburg, Carolien H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2006.
• Series: Milestones in Drug Therapy
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Immunology.; Pharmacology.; Oncology.; Cell biology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Cancer Research.; Cell Biology.

During recent years the field of effective anticancer agents has substantially increased. The use of chemotherapy has been accepted as a standard therapy for an expanding number of tumour types and stages, while many new agents are being investigated when standard therapy is lacking or failing. Apar...

Table of Contents:

• Antimetabolites
• DNA-intercalators — the anthracyclines
• Topoisomerase inhibitors
• Tubulin interacting agents
• Vaccination therapies in solid tumors
• Oral anticancer agents
• Anti-angiogenesis agents
• Signal transduction inhibitors
• Endocrine therapy of breast cancer.