This volume explores the mechanisms of resistance to targeted therapeutics. The focus is on the cancer cell signaling network, although other mechanisms of resistance including target mutation, and new areas of study such as cancer stem cells are included.Targeted Therapies: Mec…
"This is the first book to focus on frequent and frequently disabling side effects involving the skin, hair, and nails in cancer patients. It provides detailed descriptions of mechanism-of-action in all current oncology drugs and the clinical presentation and mechanisms underlyi…
Individualized cancer chemotherapy (ICC) has been designed to meet the requirement of selecting anticancer drugs in clinics and attracting increasing attentions in medical circle and will show more beneficial outcome in the future if we stick on these researches. Personalized Ca…
There are many steps on the road from discovery of an anticancer drug to securing its final approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In Handbook of Anticancer Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics, leading investigators synthesize an invaluable overview of the ex…
Based on results from the past ten years, this ready reference systematically describes how to prepare, carry out, and evaluate animal studies for cancer therapies, addressing the widely recognized lack of reliable and reproducible results. Following a short historical introduct…
Cancer Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy Review is the first book devoted entirely to providing the 'must-know' facts on each cancer agent including their pharmacokinetics, FDA-approved indications, toxicity, interactions, and other important information that is commonly found on…
Perry's The Chemotherapy Source Book, now in its fifth edition, provides information on the choice of chemotherapeutic agents, the use of combination chemotherapy, and the toxicity of individual drugs. Organized by site, this is the only book of its kind to focus strictly on the…
Nature is an attractive source of therapeutic compounds and with such chemical diversity found in millions of species of plants, over 60% of currently used anticancer agents are derived from natural sources. This volume summarizes advances in the experimental and clinical resear…
