Tobacco Use and the Cancer Patient

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Tobacco Use and the Cancer Patient Graham W. Warren Benjamin A. Toll Irene M. Tamí-Maury Ellen R. Gritz INTRODUCTION Tobacco is commonly described as the largest preventable cause of cancer….

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Assessment of Clinical Response

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Assessment of Clinical Response Antonio Tito Fojo Susan E. Bates INTRODUCTION Approaches to response assessments have become increasingly important over the past decade as the drug development pipeline has steadily…

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Monoclonal Antibodies

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Monoclonal Antibodies Hossein Borghaei Matthew K. Robinson Gregory P. Adams Louis M. Weiner INTRODUCTION Antibody-based therapeutics are important components of the cancer therapeutic armamentarium. Early antibody therapy studies attempted to…

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Antiangiogenesis Agents

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Antiangiogenesis Agents Cindy H. Chau William Douglas Figg Sr. INTRODUCTION Blood vessels are indispensable for tumor growth and metastasis, and the formation of a new network of blood vessels from…

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Hormonal Agents

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Hormonal Agents Matthew P. Goetz Charles Erlichman Charles L. Loprinzi Manish Kohli INTRODUCTION Hormonal agents are commonly used as a treatment of hormonally responsive cancers, such as breast, prostate, or…

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Miscellaneous Chemotherapeutic Agents

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Miscellaneous Chemotherapeutic Agents M. Sitki Copur Scott Nicholas Gettinger Sarah B. Goldberg Hari A. Deshpande HOMOHARRINGTONINE AND OMACETAXINE Homoharringtonine and its congener, harringtonine, are cephalotaxine esters isolated from the evergreen…

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Poly (ADP-ribose) Polymerase Inhibitors

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Poly (ADP-ribose) Polymerase Inhibitors Alan Ashworth INTRODUCTION Cancer cells may harbor defects in DNA repair pathways leading to genomic instability. This can foster tumorigenesis but also provides a weakness that…

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Proteasome Inhibitors

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Proteasome Inhibitors Christopher J. Kirk Brian B. Tuch Shirin Arastu-Kapur Lawrence H. Boise BIOCHEMISTRY OF THE UBIQUITIN-PROTEASOME PATHWAY The ubiquitin proteasome system is involved in the degradation of more than…

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Kinase Inhibitors as Anticancer Drugs

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Kinase Inhibitors as Anticancer Drugs Charles L. Sawyers INTRODUCTION In 2001, the first tyrosine-kinase inhibitor imatinib was approved for clinical use in chronic myeloid leukemia. The spectacular success of this…

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