Research progress on classification, characteristics and mechanism of antitumor drugs.

Malignant tumors are potential killers of human life, seriously endangering people's physical health. As far as the treatment of malignant tumors is concerned, there exist many therapeutic methods such as surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, among which chemotherapy is an important means of antitumor therapy. Chemotherapy antineoplastic agents can be divided into alkylating agents, metalloplatinum, plant drugs, antimetabolite, antineoplastic antibiotics, antineoplastic hormones, molecular targeted agents, and peptides, This article reviews the current drug characteristics, mechanism of action and research directions of various anti-tumor drugs in order to provide references for clinical treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]