Clinical testing of new molecular agents – do we have a clinical trial problem?
G von Minckwitz · Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde · 2009 · Heft 02
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Zusammenfassung
With the incremental knowledge on mechanisms of cancer development, a multitude of potential targets for new therapeutic agents have been discovered. Methodology for drug development has improved simultaneously, so that a tremendous amount of new compounds is waiting to be tested in pre-clinical and clinical studies for their potential efficacy against malignant diseases. New targeted agents can either inhibits selectively one target or can inhibit a range of targets of the same group or even different groups (so called „dirty drugs“). It is so far not clear which approach is more promising. High selectivity mig…