Is it time for a new paradigm for systemic cancer treatment? Lessons from a century of cancer chemotherapy
U.S. SEER data for age-adjusted mortality rates for all cancers combined for all races show only a modest overall 13% decline over the past 35 years. Moreover, the greatest contributor to cancer mortality is treatment resistant metastatic disease. The accepted therapeutic paradigm for the past half...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2013-06-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Pharmacology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphar.2013.00068/full |