By M. Baum (auth.), B. A. J. Ponder, M. J. Waring (eds.)
Many of the best remedies for sickness were stumbled on empir ically. these days, despite the fact that, we expect that knowing the biology of a illness will lead us to layout greater remedies, and to enhance the applying of remedies we have already got. to complete this, substantial sums are expended on melanoma study. in spite of this, to the informal observer of medical oncology the proliferation of experiences and trials of ever-different mixtures of remedies appears like empiricism, on the top. within the first a part of this booklet, we now have requested training clinicians in numerous specialities to evaluate the contributions of biology and of empiricism to present techniques to therapy. within the moment half, we now have requested researchers in numerous parts of biology utilized to melanoma to evaluate the current and certain destiny influence in their form of biology on melanoma therapy and regulate. IX 1 surgical procedure M.BAUM pursuits OF melanoma therapy The pursuits of melanoma remedy will be outlined in response to inhabitants requisites or in line with the desires of the person. so far as the inhabitants is worried, govt professionals are entitled to count on that melanoma remedy will bring about mortality savings and price containment.
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Unfortunately, the latter clinical studies only loosely explored non-cross-resistance, and, perhaps for that reason, the concept has recently been brought into question. g. mUltiple alkylating agents or mUltiple antifolates). As yet, the value of these new approaches is not established. Lessons from treatment of transplanted animal tumours There has been some contribution from experimental combination chemotherapy of transplanted animal tumours, and from studies of multidrug therapy in vitro. These laboratory controlled studies have not always been rigorous in 41 SCIENCE OF CANCER TREATMENT their design or the use of such terms as synergism.