Cancer Chemotherapy, v. 8: Challenges for the Future (Hardcover)

The theme of the symposium on which this book is based was "New therapeutic concepts and their clinical applications", in which the keynote address discusses recent progress in and future prospects for the treatment of aggressive lymphomas. The section on new therapies and concepts suggests that further studies at the level of genes and chromosomes are necessary for future progress in cancer chemotherapy. Presentations on the mechanism of leukemogenesis focusing on gene rearrangements indicates that in the near future gene therapy will be available for the treatment of leukemia and lymphoma. New differentiation inducers with reference to glycobiology and all-trans retinoic acid therapy in the treatment or' acute promyelocytic leukemia is reviewed, as is cure-oriented intensive chemotherapy, acute leukemia, malignant lymphoma, and the new drug taxol. This book will provide new therapeutic concepts to many oncologists, especially cancer chemotherapists, working in both basic and clinical research.