Principles of human chemoprevention.
Preventive strategy has decreased the morbidity and mortality from many diseases, but so far similar progress against cancer using chemoprevention as a strategy has not been achieved in a useful way. This article discusses the biology of cancer as it relates to chemoprevention, and the process and principles that the development of candidate chemopreventive agents should follow.
Meyskens
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Division of Medicine, University of California at Irvine, Orange, USA.
D018890:Chemoprevention; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*