Cancer Drug Delivery Systems Based on the Tumor Microenvironment (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

This book proposes the importance of new systems of drug design and delivery based on cancer pathophysiology in addition to cancer molecular and cellular biology. The current studies based on molecular and cellular biology while ignoring pathophysiology and pharmacology may be leading the development of antitumor drugs in the wrong direction and wasting a lot of money. Although there have been numerous reports of genetic and phenotypic changes in tumors, a large body of pathological and clinical evidence supports the conclusion that there are no pivotal changes in tumor cells that distinguish them consistently and reliably from normal dividing cells. Unlike using antibiotics against bacterial infection, therefore, anticancer agents (ACAs) need to be delivered selectively to tumor tissues and should be kept there long enough to reproduce the concentrations they reach in the Petri dish, which is a closed space where the cytocidal effects of any anticancer agents (ACAs) including molecular targeting agents are very strong. In the body, however, administered ACAs are cleared with the passage of time. Furthermore, most human cancers possess abundant stroma that hinders the penetration of drugs into the tumor microenvironment. Therefore, to overcome these difficulties, novel drug delivery systems have been designed, such as nanoparticles and ACA conjugated antibodies to stromal components and to cancer cell surface antigens. These advances are described in this book after the first section, which describes core features of the pathophysiology of the cancer microenvironment, on which these new developments are based.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag,Japan
Country of origin:	Japan
Release date:	December 2019
First published:	2019
Editors:	Yasuhiro Matsumura • David Tarin
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	325
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-4-431-56878-0
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Nanotechnology Books > Professional & Technical > Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies > Industrial chemistry > Pharmaceutical technology Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Oncology > General Promotions
LSN:	4-431-56878-6
Barcode:	9784431568780

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