Published September, 2006
By Leonard B. Saltz
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Current Clinical Oncology
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Management options for patients with colorectal cancer have undergone d- matic changes over the past decade. Whereas at the start of 1996 only one drug, 5-Fluorouracil, was available for the treatment of this disease, a mere 10 yr later, six drugs are licensed for use in colorectal cancer, and others are in the late phases of clinical development.

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Published September, 2006
By Qing Wang
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine
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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in developed countries, but is quickly becoming an epidemic in such well-populated countries as China, India, and other developing nations.

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Published September, 2006
By Christophe Wiart
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Talks about the pharmacological potentials of one of the most exciting source of potential drugs: the medicinal plants of the Pacific Rim. This book emphasizes the fundamental importance of the precise observation of the use of each medicinal plant combined with pharmacological experiment and its botanical classification.

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Published September, 2006
By Godefridus J. Peters
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Cancer Drug Discovery and Development
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The classical example is gemcitabine, now one of the most widely applied deoxynucleoside analogs, used for the (combination) treatment of non-small cell lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, bladder cancer, and ovarian cancer.

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Published September, 2006
By Ricardo Azziz
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Endocrinology
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In keeping with these advances, the title of this book has been revised to reflect the growing importance of PCOS as the most prevalent androgen excess disorder in women, and arguably, as the one that might have the most serious adverse consequences for general health.

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Published September, 2006
By Qing Wang
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine
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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in developed countries, but is quickly becoming an epidemic in such well-populated countries as China, India, and other developing nations.

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Published September, 2006
By Cyndy D. Davis and Paul R. Sanberg
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Neuroscience
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Cell therapy, however, remains the most compelling treatment for neurodegenerative diseases, disorders, and injuries, including Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, traumatic brain injury, and stroke, which is expanded upon in more detail in Chapter 1 by Snyder and colleagues.

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Published August, 2006
By Mark W. Saltzman, Hong Shen and Janet L. Brandsma
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine
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In the early 1990s, almost 200 yr after Edward Jenner demonstrated the effectiveness of the smallpox vaccine, a new paradigm for vaccination emerged.

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Published August, 2006
By Douglas O. Faigel and Michael L. Kochman
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Table 1 Cancer is the second most common cause of death in Americans (see www.cdc.gov). Taken as a group, the five most common GI malignancies account for more cancers Colorectum 53.9 21.6 and more cancer deaths than for any other site.

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Published August, 2006
By Michael Benatar
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A Certain Kind of Wisdom In Plato's Apology, the Greek philosopher Socrates is on trial to defend himself against the allegation of corrupting the youth of Athens. And so he set about seeking out Athenians with a reputation for wisdom in various regards in order to test their claims to knowledge through questioning.

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