Iddo Paldor, Kaisorn L Chaichana, Henry Brem, Betty M Tyler
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引用次数: 9
Abstract
Systemic chemotherapy of malignant brain tumors has failed to achieve sufficient drug concentrations at the neoplasm site and frequently results in severe toxicities. Therefore, the local application of several anticancer agents, oncolytic viruses and vectors for gene therapy, immune-modifying preparations, and angiogenesis inhibitors has been investigated widely. Various modes of their administration were introduced, including intratumoral injections, implantation of reservoirs or pumps, convection-enhanced delivery, and use of nanocarriers, thermoreversible gels, microchips, and drug-loaded polymers. Many of these therapeutic approaches have shown promising results in management of high-grade gliomas.
期刊介绍:
Published since 1966, this series has become universally recognized as the most significant group of books serving neurological surgeons. Volumes feature contributions from distinguished international surgeons, who brilliantly review the literature from the perspective of their own personal experience. The result is a series of works providing critical distillations of developments of central importance to the theory and practice of neurological surgery.