*Edited by Jolanta Natalia Latosinska and Magdalena Latosinska*

The evidence of cancer in humans, animals and plant species suggests that it is as old as multicellular life on Earth. Why is it so difficult to understand and fight? Because cancer begins from the organism's own mutated single cell focused on its own survival. It would be naive to expect that cancer could be ever entirely eliminated, but there is still hope for finding effective treatments. The book is to give a view of selected aspects of cancer like its spread in nature, novel anticancer drugs based on Chinese herbs or birch bark, novel promising targets of annexins and kinases and progress in immunotherapy. It is our hope that you will find in this book interesting, inspiring and stimulating information concerning cancer research.

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Unique Aspects of Anti-cancer Drug Development

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## Unique Aspects of Anticancer Drug Development

*Edited by Jolanta Natalia Latosinska and Magdalena Latosinska*

## **UNIQUE ASPECTS OF ANTI-CANCER DRUG DEVELOPMENT**

Edited by **Jolanta Natalia Latosińska** and **Magdalena Latosińska**

#### **Unique Aspects of Anti-cancer Drug Development**

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/65160 Edited by Jolanta Natalia Latosinska and Magdalena Latosinska

#### **Contributors**

Filiz Bakar, Fidele Ntie-Kang, Abdulkarim Najjar, Wolfgang Sippl, Yibin Feng, Wei Guo, Ning Wang, Codruta Soica, Diana Antal, Florina Andrica, Roxana Racoviceanu (Babuta), Alina Moaca, Florina Ardelean, Roxana Ghiulai, Stefana Avram, Corina Danciu, Dorina Coricovac, Cristina Dehelean, Katarzyna Derwich, Jolanta Natalia Latosińska

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