Research Catalog

Title

Combination cancer therapy : modulators and potentiators / edited by Gary K. Schwartz.

Publication

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

Schwartz, Gary K.

Description

x, 284 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Cutting-edge and forward-looking, Combination Cancer Therapy: Modulators and Potentiators offers everyone in the fields of cancer drug development and therapy a powerful new understanding of the optimal sequencing and scheduling of new combination drug therapies necessary to maximize the effects for cancer patients today."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Cancer drug discovery and development

Uniform Title

Cancer drug discovery and development.

Subject

• Cancer > Chemotherapy
• Apoptosis
• Cancer > Treatment
• Neoplasms > drug therapy
• Drug Therapy, Combination

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Targeting of the EGFR as a modulator of cancer chemotherapy / Jose Baselga -- 2. Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors in combination chemotherapy / Manish A. Shah and Gary K. Schwartz -- 3. Development of protein kinase C and cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors as potentiators of cytotoxic drug action in leukemia / Steven Grant -- 4. Carboxyamidotriazole, an inhibitor of nonvoltage-operated calcium entry : single-agent and combination therapy for Ovarian carcinoma / Chad M. Michener and Elise C. Kohn -- 5. Targeted [alpha]-particle therapy : a rational approach to drug development in hematologic diseases and solid tumors / John M. Burke, David A. Scheinberg and Joseph G. Jurcic -- 6. Pharmacological modulation of fluoropyrimidines : building on the lessons of the past / Owen A. O'Connor -- 7. Development of inhibitors of HER2 with taxanes : new directions in breast cancer therapy / Shanu Modi, Monica N. Fornier and Andrew D. Seidman -- 8. Targeting NF-[kappa]B to increase the activity of cisplatin in solid tumors / Don S. Dizon, Carol Aghajanian, X. Jun Yan and David R. Spriggs -- 9. Combinations of chemotherapy and G3139, an antisense Bcl-2 oligonucleotide / Luba Benimetskaya, Sridhar Mani and C. A. Stein -- 10. Use of animal models to evaluate signal transduction inhibitors as modulators of cytotoxic therapy / Beverly A. Teicher.

ISBN

1588292002 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004010543

OCLC

• ocm55138771
• SCSB-5157576

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries