''Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry'' is a

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covering the disciplines of

medicinal chemistry Medicinal or pharmaceutical chemistry is a scientific discipline at the intersection of chemistry and pharmacy involved with designing and developing pharmaceutical drugs. Medicinal chemistry involves the identification, synthesis and developm ...

and

drug design Drug design, often referred to as rational drug design or simply rational design, is the inventive process of finding new medications based on the knowledge of a biological target. The drug is most commonly an organic small molecule that acti ...

relating to

chemotherapeutic Chemotherapy (often abbreviated to chemo and sometimes CTX or CTx) is a type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (chemotherapeutic agents or alkylating agents) as part of a standardized chemotherapy regimen. Chemotherap ...

agents in

cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal b ...

. It is published by

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and the

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is Simone Carradori ( "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara). The journal covers developments in "medicinal chemistry and rational drug design for the discovery of anti-cancer agents" and publishes original research reports and review papers. It is related to the journal ''

Current Medicinal Chemistry ''Current Medicinal Chemistry'' is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Bentham Science Publishers. The editor-in-chief is Atta-ur-Rahman, FRS (Kings College University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK). The journal covers developments in medicin ...

'' and was established in 2001 as ''Current Medicinal Chemistry – Anti-Cancer Agents''. The journal obtained its present title in 2006.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 2.505.

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://benthamscience.com/journals/anti-cancer-agents-in-medicinal-chemistry/ Medicinal chemistry journals Publications established in 2001 Bentham Science Publishers academic journals English-language journals