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Biochemotherapy for melanoma : Rational therapeutics in the search for weapons of melanoma destruction

✍ Scribed by Kim A. Margolin

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Weight: 60 KB
Volume: 101
Category: Article
ISSN: 0008-543X
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20402

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✦ Synopsis

Understanding of the mechanisms underlying the activity and limitations of biochemotherapy remains inadequate. The design of new regimens should based on emerging knowledge regarding molecular mechanisms of oncogenesis, cancer cell proliferation and survival, and control apoptosis.

See also pages 596–603.

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