Cargando…
Tamoxifen from Failed Contraceptive Pill to Best-Selling Breast Cancer Medicine: A Case-Study in Pharmaceutical Innovation
Today, tamoxifen is one of the world's best-selling hormonal breast cancer drugs. However, it was not always so. Compound ICI 46,474 (as it was first known) was synthesized in 1962 within a project to develop a contraceptive pill in the pharmaceutical laboratories of ICI (now part of AstraZenec...
Autor principal: | Quirke, Viviane M. |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2017
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5600945/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28955226 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2017.00620 |
Ejemplares similares
-
An overview of the key routes to the best selling 5-membered ring heterocyclic pharmaceuticals
por: Baumann, Marcus, et al.
Publicado: (2011) -
Herba Cistanche (Rou Cong-Rong): One of the Best Pharmaceutical Gifts of Traditional Chinese Medicine
por: Li, Zhiming, et al.
Publicado: (2016) -
THE CONTRACEPTIVE PILL
Publicado: (1965) -
Hormone Replacement Therapy advertising: sense and nonsense on the web pages of the best-selling pharmaceuticals in Spain
por: Chilet-Rosell, Elisa, et al.
Publicado: (2010) -
Progress in the Understanding of the Mechanism of Tamoxifen Resistance in Breast Cancer
por: Yao, Jingwei, et al.
Publicado: (2020)