Point-of-Care for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Antineoplastic Drugs
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Copyright: © 2016 Polo F, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. In the clinical practice, therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) concerns the analytical determination of pharmaceutical drug concentrations in patients’ bio-fluids at specific time intervals to allow a close and timely control of their dosage. This practice allows for rapid medical intervention in case of toxicity-related issues and/or adjustment of dosage to better fit the therapeutic demand.
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