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082 _a616.994
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245 _aDrug Delivery Systems in Cancer Therapy
260 _aNew Jersey
_bHumana Press
_c2004
300 _a390p
500 _aLeading experts survey the currently available technologies designed to improve the delivery of today's cancer chemotherapeutic agents. The authors review both the theoretical and practical considerations governing conventional and nonconventional methods of drug administration, and identify promising opportunities for product development. In their outline and discussion of the use of novel formulation technologies-including synthetic polymers and biomaterials for prolonged or sustained drug release to achieve potentially greater therapeutic effect-they profile those technologies that have resulted in a number of approved and late-stage clinical products.
600 _aCancer
_919550
700 _aBrown, Dennis M.
_eEditor
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995 _aPharmacy Reference
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