There are many steps on the road from discovery of an anticancer drug to securing its final approval by the Food and Drug Administration. In this thoroughly updated and expanded second edition of the Handbook of Anticancer Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics, leading investigators synthesize an invaluable overview of the experimental and clinical processes of anticancer drug development, creating a single indispensable reference that covers all the steps from the identification of cancer-specific molecular targets to screening techniques and the development and validation of bioanalytical...

This book offers a detailed, step-by-step guide to the successful design and approval of anticancer drugs. It covers all steps, from the identification of cancer-specific molecular targets to clinical trial design and all the phases of clinical trials.