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The antimetabolites constitute a large group of anticancer drugs that interfere with metabolic processes vital to the physiology and proliferation of cancer cells. The major classes of the antimetabolites are the antifols, the purine analogues, and the pyrimidine analogues [1–4].
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Chiao, J., Beitz, J., DeLap, R.J. (2001). Antimetabolic Agents. In: Current Cancer Therapeutics. Current Medicine Group, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1099-0_2
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