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01.01.2016 | Introduction
Cytotoxic drugs: past, present and future
verfasst von:
Herbie Newell, Edward Sausville
Erschienen in:
Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology
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Ausgabe 1/2016
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Excerpt
In developed countries, due to increasing overall longevity, the lifetime risk of a cancer diagnosis is set to rise to 1:2. Notwithstanding the increased cancer burden, cancer outcomes have improved markedly over the past 40 years, the period over which Cancer Chemotherapy & Pharmacology has been in print, and the likelihood of surviving more than 10 years after a diagnosis of cancer has doubled from 1:4 to 1:2. Consequently, in the UK, some 80,000 more people who are diagnosed with cancer each year can now expect to live for at least 10 years, compared to the situation 40 years ago. …