1st Edition
Microspheres and Regional Cancer Therapy
256 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
256 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Microspheres and Regional Cancer Therapy takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject of microspheres and regional cancer therapy. It synthesizes laboratory and clinical data to demonstrate the utility of microsphere-based strategies in the treatment of localized solid tumors (particularly in the liver) not amenable to surgery and as a component of strategies for treatment of disseminated... Read more
Pharmaceutical and Methodological Aspects of Microparticles (Y. Chen, M.A. Burton, and B.N. Gray). Blood Flow and Its Modulation in Malignant Tumors (D.G. Hirst). Microparticulate Carriers as a Therapeutic Option in Regional Cancer Therapy: Clinical Considerations (J.H. Anderson, C.S. McArdle, and T.G. Cooke). Magnetically Controlled Targeted Chemotherapy (P.K. Gupta and C.T. Hung). Agents for Microsphere Incorporation: Physicochemical Considerations and Physiological Consequences of Particle Embolization (N. Willmott). Drug Analysis of Protein Microspheres: From Pharmaceutical Preparation to In Vivo Fate (J. Cummings, D. Watson, and J.F. Smyth). Regional Therapy of Liver Metastases: A Surgeon's View (H.J. Gallagher and J.M. Daly). Evaluation of the Potential of Microspherical Systems for Regional Therapy in the Tumor Bearing Liver and Kidney Using Techniques in Nuclear Medicine (J.A. Goldberg, J.H. McKillop, and C.S. McArdle). Perspective on Microspheres in Regional Cancer Therapy (N. Willmott, B.N. Gray, and J.M. Daly).
Biography
Oncology Research Celltech, Ltd. Slough, United Kingdom. Department of Surgery Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
