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The role of antitumor antibiotics in current oncologic practice

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The antitumor antibiotics have thus made a major impact on oncologic practice. The continued search for productive strains of these organisms should be encouraged; in addition, the activity and toxicity spectrum suggests the need for vigorous analogue development. An active anthracycline devoid of cardiotoxicity, a bleomycin with no effect on pulmonary tissue, an analogue of streptozoticin devoid of nephrotoxicity —these would be advances of inestimable benefit to the cancer patient of the future.

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Davis, H.L., von Hoff, D.D., Henney, J.E. et al. The role of antitumor antibiotics in current oncologic practice. Cancer Chemother. Pharmacol. 1, 83–90 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00254041

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