Fluoropyrimidines in Cancer Therapy (Cancer Drug Discovery and Development)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: December 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780896039568
Subjects: Oncology; Therapeutic use; Medical; Cancer Chemotherapy; Pharmacological Product Development; Medical / Nursing; Pharmacology; Gastroenterology; Medical / Oncology; drug therapy; Chemotherapy; Cancer; Colorectal Neoplasms; Fluoropyrimidines
First sentence: 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) is an analog of uracil (Fig. I) but, owing to its additional resemblance to orotic acid and thymine, the drug uses the same pathways as these natural substrates.