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- Editors:
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J. D. Williams
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The London Hospital Medical College, London, UK
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A. M. Geddes
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East Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham, UK
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Table of contents (65 chapters)
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- R. Blowers, D. F. J. Brown
Pages 7-12
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- G. Th. J. Fabius, R. P. Mouton
Pages 47-54
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- S. H. Zinner, R. B. Provonchee, K. S. Elias
Pages 55-59
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- B. van Klingeren, A. Rutgers
Pages 61-65
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- Kunitomo Watanabe, Keiu Ninomiya, Izumi Mochizuki, Toshio Miwa, Hiromu Imamura, Shunro Kobata et al.
Pages 71-76
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- Toshio Miwa, Izumi Mochizuki, Kunitomo Watanabe, Shunro Kobata, Hiromu Imamura, Keiu Ninomiya et al.
Pages 89-93
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- P. J. McDonald, W. A. Craig, C. M. Kunin
Pages 95-102
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- D. W. Kerry, J. M. T. Hamilton-Miller, W. Brumfitt
Pages 103-106
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- R. A. A. Watson, E. J. Shaw, C. R. W. Edwards
Pages 107-110
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About this book
The International Society of Chemotherapy meets every two years to review progress in chemotherapy of infections and of malignant disease. Each meeting gets larger to encompass the extension of chemotherapy into new areas. In some instances, expansion has been rapid, for example in cephalosporins, pen icillins and combination chemotherapy of cancer - in others slow, as in the field of parasitology. New problems of resistance and untoward effects arise; reduction of host toxicity without loss of antitumour activity by new substances occupies wide attention. The improved results with cancer chemotherapy, es pecially in leukaemias, are leading to a greater prevalence of severe infection in patients so treated, pharmacokinetics of drugs in normal and diseased subjects is receiving increasing attention along with related problems of bioavailability and interactions between drugs. Meanwhile the attack on some of the major bacterial infections, such as gonorrhoea and tubercu losis, which were among the first infections to feel the impact of chemotherapy, still continue to be major world problems and are now under attack with new agents and new methods. From this wide field and the 1,000 papers read at the Congress we have produced Proceedings which reflect the variety and vigour of research in this important field of medicine. It was not possible to include all of the papers presented at the Congress but we have attempted to include most aspects of cur rent progress in chemotherapy.
Editors and Affiliations
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The London Hospital Medical College, London, UK
J. D. Williams
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East Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham, UK
A. M. Geddes