Foreword

While it is pleasing to see the continual upsurge in scientific articles describing research on drugs for cancer therapy, this increase in the literature makes it everharder to keep up, even with selected topics in the field. Thus it is very good to see this e-Book venture by Bentham Science Publishers, containing selected, author-updated papers originally published in Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry during 2008-2010. A particular virtue of this approach is that it obtains additional value from all the effort that is initially put into writing a review, by keeping it up-to-date and thus more useful. The present Volume 1 contains reviews of many of the classes of drugs of contemporary interest for cancer therapy, and offers a new way of keeping up with a field of interest, or being rapidly introduced to a new field. I congratulate Michelle Prudhomme, Editor-in- Chief of Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry, for this interesting new venture, which I commend to you.