Progress in anti-cancer chemotherapy /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Khayat, David, Hortobagyi, Gabriel N.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass., USA : Blackwell Science, [1997]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Cytotoxic therapy
  • The Camptothecin topoisomerase I inhibitors: an update / Susan G. Arbuck ... [et al.]
  • Preventing the mutagenicity and carcinogenicity of anti-cancer drugs / Lynnette R. Ferguson
  • Pt. 2. Immunology
  • Prospects of active immunization against human cancer antigens / Karl Erik Hellström, Ingegerd Hellström, and Lieping Chen
  • Geneticmodifications to enhance the antitumor immune response / D. Keith Bishop.
  • Biochemotherapy in the treatment of advanced melanoma: clinical results and potential mechanisms of anti-cancer activity / Clay M. Anderson ... [et al.]
  • Pt. 3. Radiotherapy
  • Molecular and cellular responses of the brain to radiotherapy / William H. McBride ... [et al.]
  • Radiochemotherapy in head and neck cancer / Marco Merlano, Marco Benasso, and Carlotta Simoni.
  • An overview of the radiotherapeutic management of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), based on the clinical trials of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) / Roger W. Byhardt
  • Pt. 4. Clinical management
  • Adjuvant therapy of colon and rectal carcinoma / Jaffer A. Ajani
  • Update on the medical management of advanced colon cancer / Margaret A. Tempero
  • Pt. 5. Chemoprevention
  • Recent advances in upper aerodigestive tract chemoprevention / Fadlo R. Khuri and Scott M. Lippman.
  • Oral cancers and precancerous lesions: overall results and new treatments / Henri Szpirglas
  • Is chemoprevention of breast cancer possible with tamoxifen? / Moise Namer, Jean-Marc Ferrero, and Anne Creisson
  • Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer: concepts and first clinical results / Eric-Charles Antoine ... [et al.]