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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Main Author: Sarah eCrawford
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Pharmacology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphar.2013.00068/full