Anticancer Therapeutics (PDF)

Written by the winner of the 2008 Mike Price Fellowship

"This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the wealth
of information now available in this important and fast-moving
subject." Anticancer Research, November - December
2008

This book provides a clear introduction to the area, with an
overview of the various drug design and development approaches for
cancer therapeutics and their progress in today's
multidisciplinary approach to cancer treatment.

Clearly structured throughout, the book not only provides
information on currently used molecular treatment approaches, but
also describes the various agents that are currently at various
stages of development and clinical trials, thus making them the
drugs of tomorrow.

The book goes on to present current therapeutic regimes
including their indications and side effects, as well as their
position in the international market in terms of sales and
development costs. Furthermore, coverage of our advancement in the
understanding of cancer biology and how this has driven the drug
discovery process is clearly discussed. Modern drug discovery
aspects, through genomic, proteomic and metabolomic approaches are
referred to as well as combinatorial chemistry techniques and
discovery of chemotherapeutic agents from plant extracts, re-use of
old drugs and drugs from other indications, or de novo
rational drug design.

Including contributions from leading experts in the field, this
book provides the reader with a complete overview of the various
types of therapeutic agents, current and emerging, as well as other
aspects associated with anticancer therapy, drug design, resistance
and clinical trials in oncology.