Journal de Pharmacie Clinique
MENUAnticancer treatment: towards a better selection of patients Volume 27, issue 3, juillet, août, septembre
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Service de pharmacie, hôpitaux universitaires de Strasbourg, avenue Molière, 67098 Strasbourg cedex, France, Laboratoire d’antibiologie, institut de bactériologie, université Louis-Pasteur, 3, rue Koeberlé, 67000 Strasbourg, France
- Key words: anticancer treatment, selection, biomarkers of response
- DOI : 10.1684/jpc.2008.0090
- Page(s) : 125-32
- Published in: 2008
Numerous cancer patients do not respond to treatment. Chemotherapy can occasionally cause life-threatening toxic effects and is costly. Thus, there is a need to identify predictive biomarkers than can reliably select responders or non-responders. This paper presents recent examples of anticancer drugs for which markers of response have been identified. Therapeutic implications in terms of selection of patients are discussed.