Advances in Anticancer Drug Discovery II

Dear Colleagues,

In some developed countries, cancer is now the main cause of death. Even though great progress has been made in the treatment of cancer, and practically some cancer types are curable, there is an acute need for much-improved therapies. In particular, with aging demographics more people will develop neoplastic diseases and, eventually, cancer. A further consideration is that elderly people are less able to tolerate aggressive surgery, radiation therapy, and/or cytotoxic drugs. Therefore, oncologists are often forced to make the difficult decision not to propose any intervention and can only offer palliative care. Therefore, the need for more benign anticancer therapies is acute.

In this Special Issue, we wish to focus on the area of drug discovery, design, and development, where new biological targets are being investigated and small molecules with potency against various cancer types are being developed, which in turn will lay the foundations for novel and more benign anticancer therapies.

Dr. Jóhannes Reynisson
Guest Editor

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