作者: Srinivasan Madhusudan , Trivadi S. Ganesan
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-31209-3_3
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摘要: Cancer is the second leading cause of death in western world and an increasing health problem developing world. Overall survival patients with advanced cancer poor. Until recently, surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy endocrine therapy have been mainstay treatment patients. This has improved outcomes certain tumour types but treatment-related toxicity emergence drug resistance major morbidity mortality. need to improve stimulated intense scientific research recent years. Several novel targets identified. Amongst these, tyrosine kinases emerged as new promising anti-cancer target. Inhibitors BCR-ABL, EGFR VEGFR now licenced for use cancers. In this chapter, we will discuss how achieved