We conducted a questionnaire survey in order to grasp the actual conditions under which antineoplastic drugs are mixed for injection in hospitals. Questionnaires were sent to all 155 hospitals with 100 or more beds for general patients in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The response rate was 69.0%. Mixing of antineoplastic drugs was done in 81.3% of the hospitals. The questionnaire was answered by doc...

BACKGROUND Targeted therapies have become important treatment options for cancer care in many countries. This study aimed to examine recent trends in utilization of antineoplastic drugs, particularly the use of targeted therapies for treatment of cancer, by geographic region in Taiwan (northern, midwestern, southern, and eastern regions and the outer islands). METHODS This was a retrospective...

new statistic based models provide a wide area of prediction equipments for different science areas. among these fields biology have just entered the contest of interdisciplinary sciences. drug discovery is a long and expensive process which could be decreased with theoretical approaches. in this study, 500 reported assayed anti cancer molecules were extracted from science direct articles, sket...

original article   introduction: antineoplastic drugs (ands) for the treatment of cancers could result in occupational exposure of nurses and consequent side effects. this study aimed to evaluate knowledge, attitude, and performance of oncology nurses and to survey nurses’ chemotherapy workload and the experienced side effects. method: a cross-sectional study was conducted at four hospitals of ...

As number of cancer patients increasing, the chemotherapy treatments are also increasing. This analysis aims to provide a cutting-edge outline antineoplastic medications extracted from streptomyces. Streptomyces main source antibiotic production. Antineoplastic moderate pace tumor development and postpone metastasis. The utilization performance methods discussed, with focus on drugs. produces c...