Medicinal Chemistry of Anticancer Drugs (Elsevier, 2008
Cancer is presently responsible for about 25% of deaths in developed countries
and for 15% of all deaths worldwide. It can therefore be considered as one of the
foremost health problems, with about 1.45 million new cancer cases being
expected yearly. Antitumor chemotherapy is nowadays a very active field of
research, and a huge amount of information on the topic is generated every
year. Although there is a large amount of information available dealing with
clinical aspects of cancer chemotherapy, we felt that there was a clear need for
an updated treatment from the point of view of medicinal chemistry and drug
design.
Cancer is presently responsible for about 25% of deaths in developed countries
and for 15% of all deaths worldwide. It can therefore be considered as one of the
foremost health problems, with about 1.45 million new cancer cases being
expected yearly. Antitumor chemotherapy is nowadays a very active field of
research, and a huge amount of information on the topic is generated every
year. Although there is a large amount of information available dealing with
clinical aspects of cancer chemotherapy, we felt that there was a clear need for
an updated treatment from the point of view of medicinal chemistry and drug
design.
