The role of pharmacology in anticancer drug development

• Main Authors: Godefridus J. Peters (Author), Anne-Sophie Govaerts (Author), Hans R. Hendriks (Author), for EORTC Pharmacology and Molecular Mechanism Group (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: International Association of Physical Chemists (IAPC), 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Drug development consists of many sequential and parallel steps; failure in one of the steps can lead to discontinuation of the process. The process is time-consuming and very expensive, especially the clinical phase. In order to enhance cancer drug development in the 1980s, the National Cancer Inst...