Targeted therapies in oncology
By: edited by Giuseppe Giaccone, Jean-Charles Soria.
Contributors: Giaccone, Giuseppe.; Soria, Jean-Charles.
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780849393716
Subjects: Cancer -- Treatment; Neoplasms -- therapy; Gene Therapy; Immunotherapy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview of existing therapies / Jiannis Mountzios and Jean-Charles Soria; title: Signal transduction inhibitors, HER family, EGFR inhibition, and clinical achievements / Giuseppe Giaccone and Paolo Zucali; title: HER2 inhibition and clinical achievements / Toru Mukohara and Pasi A. Jänne; title: Pan-HER inhibitors / Gérard Milano; title: Inhibiting the phosphoinositide 3-kinase/Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin pathway / Janet E. Dancey; title: Farnesyl transferase inhibitors in cancer: promise, but limited proof / Laura Fanucchi, Michael P. Fanucchi, and Fadlo R. Khuri; title: Protein Kinase C inhibitors in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer / Yun Oh ... [et al.]; title: Signal transduction inhibitors: PDGFR and c-KIT inhibitors / Jean-Yves Blay ... [et al.]; title: The insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor: a target for cancer treatment / Yungan Tao, Jean Bourhis, and Eric Deutsch; title: Aurora kinase inhibitors / Mitesh J. Borad, Steven L. Warner, and Daniel D. von Hoff; title: Apoptosis modulators: p53 targeting / Sunil Chada ... [et al.]; title: Survivin / Dario C. Altieri; title: TRAIL modulators / C.H. Mom ... [et al.]; title: VEGF targeting / Lee M. Ellis; title: Targeting angiogenesis with oral agents / Benjamin Besse and Jean-Pierre Armand; title: Endothelial cell propagation targteing / Gordon C. Tucker; title: HIF-1 inhibitors / Giovanni Melillo; title: Antivascular agents / Jane Robertson; title: Matrix metalloproteinases / Stéphane Vignot and Jean-Philippe Sapno; title: Src inhibitors / Francisco Cruzalegui; title: Telomerase and Telomere interacting agents / Jean-Franc̦oi Riou ... [et al.]; title: Targeting Hsp90: the cancer super-chaperone / Paul Workman and Swee Sharp.