Mario A. Dicato
Editor

2013

Prevention and Treatment

The reason for publishing a book on side effects of drugs used in oncology is the fact that numerous new drugs, mostly classi fi ed as “targeted therapy,” have different and very varied spectra of side effects. As standard chemotherapy drugs have not changed much over the years in their adverse effect profiles, oncologists are usually very familiar with these problems, especially because over the past 20 years only a few new chemotherapeutic drugs have been marketed.