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Drug Resistance in Cancer Cells
. Ed(S): Mehta, Kapil; Siddik, Zahid H.
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Hardback. The inability of cancer drugs to destroy metastatic tumors is the main reason cancer therapy fails. This comprehensive text offers current knowledge on genetic and epigenetic alterations that contribute to the development of drug resistance in cancer cells. Editor(s): Mehta, Kapil; Siddik, Zahid H. Num Pages: 380 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MJCL; MMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 713.
It was estimated that in 2008, 1,437,180 patients would receive a new cancer diagnosisand 565,650individualswould die of cancer (Jemal et al. 2008).Since the vast majority of patients dying of cancer will have had anticancer therapy, both c- ventional chemotherapy and novel targeted therapy, it can be concluded that these patients are dying with drug resistant cancer. The term multidrug resistance is also apt – in that these patients die after having undergone multiple rounds of different and structurally unrelated cancer therapies. However, for some, the concept of m- tidrug resistance is a worn out idea, stemming from disappointment with the ... Read more
It was estimated that in 2008, 1,437,180 patients would receive a new cancer diagnosisand 565,650individualswould die of cancer (Jemal et al. 2008).Since the vast majority of patients dying of cancer will have had anticancer therapy, both c- ventional chemotherapy and novel targeted therapy, it can be concluded that these patients are dying with drug resistant cancer. The term multidrug resistance is also apt – in that these patients die after having undergone multiple rounds of different and structurally unrelated cancer therapies. However, for some, the concept of m- tidrug resistance is a worn out idea, stemming from disappointment with the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
Number of Pages
363
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387894447
SKU
V9780387894447
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