Quenching thirst with poison? Paradoxical effect of anticancer drugs

• Main Authors: Kaiyuan Chai (Author), Chuanlei Wang (Author), Jianpeng Zhou (Author), Wentao Mu (Author), Menghan Gao (Author), Zhongqi Fan (Author), Guoyue Lv (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Anticancer drugs have been developed with expectations to provide long-term or at least short-term survival benefits for patients with cancer. Unfortunately, drug therapy tends to provoke malignant biological and clinical behaviours of cancer cells relating not only to the evolution of resistance to...