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CHEMOTHERAPY VOLUME 4 PHARMACOLOGY OF ANTIBIOTICS by International Congress of Chemotherapy London 1975, edited by J. D. Williams and A. M. Geddes, John David Williams, Williams J. D. is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is CHEMOTHERAPY VOLUME 4 PHARMACOLOGY OF ANTIBIOTICS about?

The International Society of Chemotherapy meets every two years to review progress in chemotherapy of infections and of malignant disease. Each meeting gets larger to encompass the extension of chemotherapy into new areas. In some instances, expansion has been rapid, for example in cephalosporins, pen­ icillins and combination chemotherapy of cancer - in others slow, as in the field of parasitology. New problems of resistance and untoward effects arise; reduction of host toxicity without loss of antitumour activity by new substances occupies wide attention. The improved results with cancer chemotherapy, es­ pecially in leukaemias, are leading to a greater prevalence of severe infection in patients so treated, pharmacokinetics of drugs in normal and diseased subjects is receiving increasing attention along with related problems of bioavailability and interactions between drugs. Meanwhile the attack on some of the major bacterial infections, such as gonorrhoea and tubercu­ losis, which were among the first infections to feel the impact of chemotherapy, still continue to be major world problems and are now under attack with new agents and new methods. From this wide field and the 1,00

Author

International Congress of Chemotherapy London 1975, edited by J. D. Williams and A. M. Geddes, John David Williams, Williams J. D.

Publisher

PLENUM PRESS . NEW YORK AND LONDON

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9781468431315

Subjects

Medical, Nursing, Medicine