Targeted therapies in cancer
Subtitle: myth or reality?
By: Francesco Colotta, Alberto Mantovani, editors.
Contributors: Colotta, Francesco.; Mantovani, Alberto.
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 610
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780387738970
Subjects: Cancer -- Treatment; Neoplasms -- drug therapy -- Congresses; Neoplasms -- physiopathology -- Congresses; Antineoplastic Agents -- therapeutic use -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Collection of contributions to a meeting held September 2005 in Milan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Causality in medicine / Giulio Giorello; title: The evolution of the biomedical paradigm in oncology : implications for cancer therapy / Gilberto Corbellini and Chiara Preti; title: Anticancer drug discovery and development / Francesco Colotta; title: Beyond VEGF : targeting tumor growth and angiogenesis via alternative mechanisms / James Christensen and Kenna Anderes; title: Aurora kinases and their inhibitors : more than one target and one drug / Patrizia Carpinelli and Jürgen Moll; title: Signalling pathways and adhesion molecules as targets for antiangiogenesis therapy in tumors / Gianfranco Bazzoni; title: Developing T-cell therapies for cancer in an academic setting / Malcolm K. Brenner; title: Anticancer cell therapy with TRAIL-armed CD34⁺ progenitor cells / Carmelo Carlo-Stella ... [et al.]; title: Linking inflammation reactions to cancer : novel targets for therapeutic strategies / Alberto Mantovani ... [et al.]; title: Clinical development of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors : what lessons have we learned? / Manuel Hidalgo; title: GIST as the model of paradigm shift towards targeted therapy of solid tumors : update and perspective on trial design / Jaap Verweij, Caroline Seynaeve, and Stefan Sleijfer; title: Monoclonal antibodies in the treatment of malignant lymphomas / Bertrand Coiffier; title: Molecular network analysis using reverse phase protein microarrays for patient tailored therapy / Runa Speer ... [et al.]