Transport of drugs from blood vessels to tumour tissue

Nature Reviews Cancer 17, 738 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrc.2017.93 Authors: Mark W. Dewhirst & Timothy W. Secomb The effectiveness of anticancer drugs in treating a solid tumour is dependent on delivery of the drug to virtually all cancer cells in the tumour. The distribution of drug in tumour tissue depends on the plasma pharmacokinetics, the structure and function of the tumour vasculature
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