Anticancer drug development guide : preclinical screening, clinical trials, and approval /

Experienced cancer researchers from pharmaceutical companies, government laboratories, and academia comprehensively review and describe in Dr. Beverly Teicher's Anticancer Drug Development Guide: Preclinical Screening, Clinical Trials, and Approval the arduous process of cancer drug discovery a...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Teicher, Beverly A., 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [1997]
Series:Cancer drug discovery and development.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. In vitro methods
  • High-volume screening
  • The NCI in vitro anticancer drug discovery screen: concept, implementation, and operation, 1985-1995
  • Human tumor screening
  • pt. 2. In vivo methods
  • Murine L1210 and P388 leukemias
  • In vivo methods for screening and preclinical testing: use of rodent solid tumors for drug discovery
  • Human tumor xenograft models in NCI drug development
  • Fertile seed and rich soil: the development of clinically relevant models of human cancer by surgical orthotopic implantation of intact tissue
  • Preclinical models for high-dose therapy
  • Models for minimal residual tumor
  • Spontaneously occurring tumors in companion animals as models for drug development
  • pt. 3. Clinical testing
  • Working with the National Cancer Institute
  • Phase I trial design and methodology
  • Phase II clinical trials in oncology
  • Drug development in Europe
  • The phase III cancer clinical trial
  • FDA role in cancer drug development and requirements for approval.