Chemometric Study on Molecules with Anticancer Properties
Joo Elias Vidueira Ferreira, Antônio Florêncio de Figueiredo, Jardel Pinto, Jos Ciraco · InTech eBooks · 2012
Cancer is a class of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells of an organism. All over the world millions of people die every year owing to one of the different types of cancer. Unfortunately cancer chemotherapy finds a serious limitation since treatment with drugs is followed by drug resistance in the tumorous cells and side effects (Efferth, 2005). So researches have been directed to make chemotherapy treatment more efficient.