Gold and its Complexes in Anticancer Chemotherapy
This book presents an overview of cancer and the genesis, and development of different treatment strategies and modalities against cancer. The emergence of gold and its complexes as promising anticancer chemotherapeutic agents have the potential to substitute or replace the platinum based chemothera...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Springer Nature Singapore
2021, 2021
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Cancer
- Chapter 2. Types of cancer
- Chapter 3. Classification
- Chapter 4. Cancer or tumor nomenclature
- Chapter 5. Heterogeneity
- Chapter 6. Invasion and metastasis
- Chapter 7. How cancer arises?
- Chapter 8. Epidemiology
- Chapter 9. Economic burden
- Chapter 10. Treatment modalities
- Chapter 11. Chemotherapy
- Chapter 12. Properties of metals and metal complexes
- Chapter 13. Platinum based anticancer agents
- Chapter 14. Chemistry of cisplatin
- Chapter 15. Mechanism of action of platinum drugs
- Chapter 16. Non-platinum anticancer agents
- Chapter 17. Chemistry of gold
- Chapter 18. Gold and its complexes in medicine
- Chapter 19. Auranofin and its analogues
- Chapter 20. Classes of gold complexes
- Chapter 21. Mechanisms of action of anticancer gold complexes
- Chapter 22. Perspectives