| 书目名称 | Cancer Chemotherapy in Clinical Practice | | 编辑 | Terry Priestman | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Overview of how different treatments relate to different cancers, and different stages of cancer development.Specifically relates different drug treatments to the natural history of cancer, from gene | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book is intended as a basic overview of the drug treatment of cancer for junior doctors and specialist nurses who come into contact with people having chemotherapy as part of their day-- day work. The aim is to provide a context to those treatments, explaining what the drugs are, how they work, some of their more likely side effects, how they are used in the treatment of the commoner cancers and what therapeutic results might be expected. The first use of the word chemotherapy is credited to Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), who used it to describe the arsenical compounds he developed to treat syphilis. Nowadays when people talk about ‘chemotherapy’, as part of cancer treatment, they are usually referring to the use of cytotoxic drugs. Cytotoxics have dominated systemic cancer therapy for the last 50 years, and their use has resulted in enormous improvements in outcome. But they are only one component of the drug treatment of malignancy. Hormonal therapies are another major contributor toincreased cure rates and survival times, and the last decade has seen an explosion of entirely new types of drugs for cancer treatment. The latter are mainly drugs specifically targeted against cancer | | 出版日期 | Book 20081st edition | | 关键词 | Cancer; chemotherapy; gene therapy; surgery; systemic therapy | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-991-0 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-84628-991-0 | | copyright | Springer-Verlag London 2008 |
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