Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 4,480 views
The most widely used anticancer agents in cancer treatment include polyfunctional alkylating, antimetabolites, antitumor antibiotics, mitotic inhibitors and others.
New drugs are continuously being isolated and applied experimentally in animal models before use in humans.
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 4,527 views
The biggest failure of anticancer chemotherapy is due to drug resistance. This resistance occurs because the cell populations or develop new encoding gene (mutation) or because they are encouraged to develop cell types resistant to being exposed to drugs, allowing them to engage in alternative pathways through the synthesis of ...
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 2,831 views
To avoid the toxic effects of chemotherapy and intolerable that they endanger the lives of patients, are obeyed criteria for the indication of chemotherapy. These criteria are varied and depend on the patient's clinical conditions and drugs selected for treatment. Below are listed some requirements ideal for the application of ...
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 3,116 views
Chemotherapeutic agents do not act exclusively on tumor cells. The normal structures that renew themselves constantly, as bone marrow, hair and mucosa of the gut are also affected by the action of chemotherapy.
However, because normal cells have an expected recovery time, unlike the anaplastic cells, it is possible that chemotherapy ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 19,963 views
Chemotherapy, in its most general sense, refers to treatment of disease by chemicals that kill cells, specifically those of micro-organisms or cancer. In other words: Chemotherapy (also called chemo) is a type of cancer treatment that uses drugs to destroy cancer cells. In popular usage, it usually refers to anti-neoplastic ...
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