Authors: Carmen Avendano, J. Carlos Menendez
Antitumour chemotherapy is nowadays a very active field of research, and a huge amount of information on the topic is generated every year. Although many books are available that deal with clinical aspects of cancer chemotherapy, this book addresses the need for an updated treatment from the point of view of medicinal chemistry and drug design. Cytotoxic chemotherapy is gradually
being supplemented by a new generation of drugs that recognize specific targets on the surface or inside cancer cells. These therapies are in their
infancy, but they hold promise of more
effective therapies with fewer side effects. Resistance to antitumour drugs is another important but normally neglected field. The…
