TY - BOOK AU - Airley,Rachel TI - Cancer chemotherapy SN - 9780470092545 (hbk) PY - 2009/// CY - Chichester, UK, Hoboken, NJ PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - Cancer KW - Chemotherapy KW - Neoplasms KW - drug therapy KW - Antineoplastic Agents KW - therapeutic use N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cancer epidemiology -- Histopathology of cancer -- Carcinogenesis, malignant transformation, and progression -- Molecular biology of cancer : oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes -- Tumour metastasis : a convergence of many theories -- Health professionals in the treatment of cancer -- Principles of cancer chemotherapy -- Classic anticancer agents -- The philosophy of cancer research -- Novel anticancer agents -- Clinical trials -- Tumour hypoxia -- Antiangiogenic and antivascular agents -- Tyrosine kinase inhibitors -- Ras inhibitors -- Inhibitors of the Akt/PKB pathway -- Targeting stress proteins: HSP90 inhibitors -- The proteasome -- Checkpoint protein kinases as novel targets : mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) -- Telomerase -- Histone deacetylase : an epigenetic drug target -- Pharmaceutical problems in cancer chemotherapy -- Oncology pharmacy at home and abroad -- Practice exam questions ER -