Brings together work by laboratory scientists and clinicians on mechanisms of resistance of specific cancers to various chemotherapeutic drugs. Explores the relationship between the differentiation phenotypes and response to chemotherapy, emphasizes the mechanisms of drug resistance in different histological types of cancer, and presents strategies for overcoming drug resistance in various tumor types. Subjects include resistance in small cell and non-small cell lung cancer, targeting of drugs using liposomes, and breast cancer resistance to hormone and cytotoxic agents. For clinicians and researchers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.