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A New Profile of Therapeutic Potential and Toxicities of Antineoplastic Drugs


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1 Institute of Pharmacy, RITEE, Chhatauna, Mandir Hasaud, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
2 Samskruti College of Pharmacy, Kondapur, Ghatkesar, RR Dist., Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
3 Anwarul Uloom College of Pharmacy, New Mallepally, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
     

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Anticancer or antineoplastic drugs are used to treat malignancies. Drug therapy may be used alone or in combination with other treatments such as surgery or radiation therapy. The available anticancer drugs have distinct mechanisms of action which may vary in their effects on different types of normal and cancer cells. A single cure for cancer has proved elusive since there is not a single type of cancer but as many as 100 different types of cancer. In addition, there are very few demonstrable biochemical differences between cancerous cells and normal cells. For this reason the effectiveness of many anticancer drugs is limited by their toxicity to normal rapidly growing cells. A final problem is that cancerous cells which are initially suppressed by a specific drug may develop a resistance to that drug. For this reason cancer chemotherapy may consist of using several drugs in combination for varying lengths of time.

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Antineoplastic, Malignancies, Therapy, Toxicity.
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Authors

R. D. Dubey
Institute of Pharmacy, RITEE, Chhatauna, Mandir Hasaud, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
A. R. Ahmad
Institute of Pharmacy, RITEE, Chhatauna, Mandir Hasaud, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
S. Paroha
Institute of Pharmacy, RITEE, Chhatauna, Mandir Hasaud, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
P. K. Sahu
Institute of Pharmacy, RITEE, Chhatauna, Mandir Hasaud, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
S. Verma
Institute of Pharmacy, RITEE, Chhatauna, Mandir Hasaud, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
S. J. Daharwal
Institute of Pharmacy, RITEE, Chhatauna, Mandir Hasaud, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
S. L. N. Prasad Reddy
Samskruti College of Pharmacy, Kondapur, Ghatkesar, RR Dist., Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
M. S. Qureshi
Anwarul Uloom College of Pharmacy, New Mallepally, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Abstract


Anticancer or antineoplastic drugs are used to treat malignancies. Drug therapy may be used alone or in combination with other treatments such as surgery or radiation therapy. The available anticancer drugs have distinct mechanisms of action which may vary in their effects on different types of normal and cancer cells. A single cure for cancer has proved elusive since there is not a single type of cancer but as many as 100 different types of cancer. In addition, there are very few demonstrable biochemical differences between cancerous cells and normal cells. For this reason the effectiveness of many anticancer drugs is limited by their toxicity to normal rapidly growing cells. A final problem is that cancerous cells which are initially suppressed by a specific drug may develop a resistance to that drug. For this reason cancer chemotherapy may consist of using several drugs in combination for varying lengths of time.

Keywords


Antineoplastic, Malignancies, Therapy, Toxicity.

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