By M. F. G. Stevens (auth.), M. J. Waring, B. A. J. Ponder (eds.)

Most of the anti-cancer medications in use this day have been stumbled on by means of satisfied twist of fate instead of layout, but the rational layout of higher anti-cancer medications is still a loved objective, and probably the most very important demanding situations dealing with clinical technological know-how.
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