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Record Nr.

UNINA9910597915403321

Titolo

Marine Compounds and Cancer / / edited by Friedemann Honecker, Sergey A. Dyshlovoy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel : , : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, , 2018

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 110 pages)

Disciplina

615.945

Soggetti

Cancer - Radiotherapy

Marine toxins

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The very first marine-derived anticancer drug, Cytarabine (aka Ara-C, Cytosar-U(R)), was approved by the FDA in 1969 for the treatment of leukemia. At the beginning of 2021, the list of approved marine-derived anticancer drugs consists of nine substances, five of which received approval within the last two years, demonstrating the rapid evolution of the field. The current book is a collection of scientific articles related to the exponentially growing field of anticancer marine compounds. These articles cover the whole field, from agents with cancer-preventive activity, to novel and previously characterized compounds with anticancer activity, both in vitro and in vivo, as well as the latest status of compounds under clinical development.