Discovery, Use and Impact of Platinum Salts As Chemotherapy Agents for Cancer

Name: Discovery, Use and Impact of Platinum Salts As Chemotherapy Agents for Cancer
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ISBN: 9780854841127

ISBN-10: 0854841121

ISBN-13: 9780854841127

Edition: 2007

Authors: D.A. Christie

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Serendipity played a large part in the discovery of the biological actions of the simple platinum coordination complexes. In the mid-1960s, Professor Barnett Rosenberg and colleagues found that a simple platinum-based compound prevented bacteria from dividing normally. He tested the compound on cancer cells and showed that it was biologically active. Cisplatin has since emerged as one of the most widely prescribed anticancer agents. Cisplatin has been shown to be effective either alone or in combination for the treatment of a wide variety of solid cancers in man, including testicular and ovarian cancers. It is also palliative in the treatment of cancers of the head and neck, bladder,…

Book details

List price: $10.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 117
Size: 6.41" wide x 7.85" long x 0.41" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English