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Review
. 1978;1(2):83-90.
doi: 10.1007/BF00254041.

The role of antitumor antibiotics in current oncologic practice

H L Davis Jr, D D von Hoff, J E Henney, M Rozencweig
Review

The role of antitumor antibiotics in current oncologic practice

H L Davis Jr et al. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 1978.

Abstract

The antitumor antibiotics have thus made a major impact on oncologic practice. The continued search for productive strains of these organisms should be encouraged; in addition, the activity and toxicity spectrum suggests the need for vigorous analogue development. An active anthracycline devoid of cardiotoxicity, a bleomycin with no effect on pulmonary tissue, an analogue of streptozoticin devoid of nephrotoxicity -- these would be advances of inestimable benefit to the cancer patient of the future.

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