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Systemic Therapies

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Manual of Clinical Oncology

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In many respects, the development of systemic therapies for cancer has paralleled the development of antimicrobial therapy. The challenges and controversies that the pioneers in the development of systemic agents for the treatment of cancer met were similar to those the developers of antimicrobials encountered. For example, medical students in the 1920s were taught the reasons why “... any form of antibacterial chemotherapy...” was “... an impossible dream.” Respected medical researchers in the 1940s likened the challenge of finding an effective anticancer drug to the problem of finding an agent that would dissolve the left ear but leave the right ear unharmed.

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  1. D. L. Trump
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  2. D. C. Smith
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  1. University of Wisconsin Medical School, 1300 University Avenue, 7C, 53706, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    Richard R. Love MD (Professor of Human Oncology, and American Cancer Society Professor of Clinical Oncology) (Professor of Human Oncology, and American Cancer Society Professor of Clinical Oncology)

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Trump, D.L., Smith, D.C. (1994). Systemic Therapies. In: Love, R.R. (eds) Manual of Clinical Oncology. UICC International Union Against Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85159-9_12

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