Personalized Cancer Chemotherapy - 9780081003466

Personalized Cancer ChemotherapyAn Effective Way of Enhancing Outcomes in Clinics\nAuthor(s): Da Yong Lu\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science & Technology, United Kingdom\nImprint: Woodhead Publishing Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780081003466, 978-0081003466\nSynopsis\nPersonalized Cancer Chemotherapy separately describes and addresses \""individualized cancer chemotherapy\"" (ICC) strategies new and old, to provide readers with new insights into their characteristics and techniques, as well as key debates and future trends in this area. The book devotes chapters to drug sensitivity testing, cancer biomarkers and bioinformatics detection, pharmacogenetics, individualized antimetastatic therapy, drug combinations, assistant chemotherapy, and cost-effectiveness considerations. A major obstacle to controlling cancer growth and metastases in patients is the inappropriate use of anticancer and antimetastatic drugs. Researchers and clinicians are now beginning to focus on ICC also called \"".