In lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells are often intrinsically resistant to certain anticancer drugs, whereas small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cells can acquire resistance with continued administration of the drug. Cancer cells are intrinsically resistant to anti-cancer agents because of genetic and epigenetic heterogeneity. These cells also acquire resistance to a wide variety of chemotherapeutic drugs through alteration in absorption, metabolism and excretion of a drug. Strategies also quite often initiate cancer cells to evade cell death by expressing mechanisms of resistance known as MDR that can result from changes that limit accumulation of drugs within cells by limiting uptake, enhancing efflux, or affecting membrane lipids.
Review articles are the summary of current state of understanding on a particular research topic. They analyze or discuss research previously published by scientist and academicians rather than reporting novel research results.
Review article comes in the form of systematic reviews and literature reviews and are a form of secondary literature. Systematic reviews determine an objective list of criteria, and find all previously published original research papers that meet the criteria. They then compare the results presented in these papers. Literature reviews, by contrast, provide a summary of what the authors believe are the best and most relevant prior publications.
The concept of "review article" is separate from the concept of peer-reviewed literature. It is possible for a review to be peer-reviewed, and it is possible for a review to be non-peer-reviewed.
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