Lu, Da-Yong 1962- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. Electronic books. enk 2015 2015 monographic eng

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1 online resource (85 pages) : illustrations (some color). Individualized cancer chemotherapy (ICC) has been designed to meet the requirement of selecting anticancer drugs in clinics and attracting increasing attentions in medical circle and will show more beneficial outcome in the future if we stick on these researches. Personalized Cancer Chemotherapy addresses and reviews this issue by discussing many existing specific strategies of ICC, including drug sensitivity testing, cancer biomarker detections, cancer biomarker-oriented therapy, anticancer drug pharmacogenetics, cancer metastasis therapy, anticancer drug combinations, assistant therapy, mathematics, and computational analysis of cancer malignancy and drug responses, cost effective and finally studies of relationship between different ICC strategies. The relationship between drug response and these techniques or methods is in-depth analyzed, discussed and highlight. Many longstanding key debates and future trends are also intensively discussed, highlighted and debuted with new twists. Introduction -- Drug sensitivity testing -- Individualized cancer chemotherapy via cancer biomarkers or bioinformatics detection -- Pharmacogenetics -- Individualized antimetastatic therapy [1-2] -- Drug combinations -- Assistant chemotherapy -- Cost-effectiveness considerations -- Discussion -- Conclusion. Da-Yong Lu. Includes bibliographical references. Chemotherapy Cancer Treatment MEDICAL Pharmacology Cancer Treatment Chemotherapy Neoplasms drug therapy Antineoplastic Agents Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions Pharmacogenetics methods Precision Medicine methods RM263 615.58 QV 267 Woodhead Pub Ltd 2014 (DLC) 2014957608 (OCoLC)898160939 9780081003473 0081003471 2014957608 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780081003466 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780081003466 EBLCP 141220 20190328114810.0 ocn898423398 eng