Targeted cancer therapy
By: edited by Razelle Kurzrock, Maurie Markman.
Contributors: Kurzrock, Razelle.; Markman, Maurie.
Series: Current clinical oncology; Current clinical oncology (Totowa, N.J.)
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9781603274234; 9781603274241
Subjects: Cancer -- Treatment; Drug targeting; Antineoplastic Agents -- therapeutic use; Neoplasms -- drug therapy; Drug Delivery Systems
Description: Emerging technologies in target identification, drug discovery, molecular markers, and imaging are rapidly changing the face of cancer. This book provides a foundation of knowledge in targeted cancer therapeutics. The treatment of cancer is increasingly being individualized, based on an understanding of underlying biologic mechanisms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Perspectives : bench to bedside and back / Jennifer Wheler and Razelle Kurzrock; title: Targeted therapy in acute myelogenous leukemia / Elihu Estey; title: Targeted therapy in breast cancer / Barbara S. Craft and Stacy Moulder; title: Targeted therapy in chronic lymphocytic leukemia / Apostolia-Maria Tsimberidou and Michael J. Keating; title: Targeted therapy in chronic myeloid leukemia / Elias Jabbour, Jorge Cortes, and Hagop Kantarjian; title: Targeted therapy in colorectal cancer / Scott Kopetz; title: Targeted therapy in non-small cell lung cancer / David J. Stewart; title: Targeted therapy in lymphoma / Amanda Wedgwood and Anas Younes; title: Targeted therapy in melanoma / Michael Davies, Sunil Patel, and Kevin B. Kim; title: Targeted therapy in multiple myeloma / Yuhong Zhou, Raymond Alexanian, and Micael Wang; title: Targeted therapy in myelodysplastic syndrome / Alfonso Quintás-Cardama ... [et al.]; title: Targeted therapy in epithelial ovarian cancer / Maurie Markman; title: Targeted drug therapy in pancreatic cancer / Don L. Gibbons, Robert A. Wolff, and Gauri Varadhachary; title: Targeted therapy in prostate cancer / Amado J. Zurita, John F. Ward, and Jeri Kim; title: Targeted therapy in renal cell carcinoma / Eric Jonasch and Nizar Tannir; title: Targeted therapy of Sarcoma / Joseph Ludwig and Jonathan C. Trent; title: Targeted and functional imaging / Vikas Kundra, Dawid Schellingerhout, and Edward F. Jackson; title: Combining targeted therapies / David Hong and Lakshmi Chintala; title: Drug development in cancer medicine : challenges for targeted approaches / Luis H. Camacho; title: Toward personalized therapy for cancer / Sarah J. Welsh and Garth Powis.