Platinum-Based Drugs in Cancer Therapy Paperback / softback
Edited by Lloyd R. Kelland, Nicholas P. Farrell
Part of the Cancer Drug Discovery and Development series
Paperback / softback
Description
Leading international experts comprehensively review all aspects of platinum anticancer drugs and their current use in treatment, as well as examining their future therapeutic prospects.
Writing from a variety of disciplines, these authorities discuss the chemistry of cisplatin in aqueous solution, the molecular interaction of platinum drugs with DNA, and such exciting new areas as DNA mismatch repair and replicative bypass, apoptosis, and the transport of platinum drugs into tumor cells.
The emergent platinum drugs of the future-orally active agents, the sterically hindered ZD0473, and the polynuclear charged platinum BBR3464-are also fully considered.
Timely and interdisciplinary, Platinum-Based Drugs in Cancer Therapy offers cancer therapeutics specialists an illuminating survey of every aspect of platinum drugs from mechanisms of action to toxicology, tumor resistance, and new analogs.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:341 pages, 5 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 341 p. 5 illus.
- Publisher:Humana Press Inc.
- Publication Date:08/12/2010
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- ISBN:9781617370915
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:341 pages, 5 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 341 p. 5 illus.
- Publisher:Humana Press Inc.
- Publication Date:08/12/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9781617370915
