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ChemCases: Cisplatin: The Invention of an Anticancer Drug

Link http://chemcases.com/cisplat/index.htm
Elements Platinum
Species Complex
Topic Information - Industrial Use
Owner Academics
Location United States
Language English
Description
Cisplatin chemotherapy now recognized for dramatic lengthening of survival for some common types of lung cancer.  Read through this unit for a description of cisplatin science
Index:
1. Effects of Electrical Fields on e. coli
2. Control Experiments
3. Redox Chemistry
4. Electrochemistry
5. Role of Platinum Electrodes
6. Transition Metal Chemistry
7. Bioinorganic Chemistry
8. Discovery of Cisplatin
9. The Discovery: One Scientist's Story
10. Chemistry Research as a Career
11. Cisplatin as an Anticancer Drug
12. Mode of Action of Cisplatin
13. Recent Developments
14. DNA
15. FDA Drug Approval Process
16. Profits
17. Drug Resistance
18. Toxic Side Effects
19. Cancer
20. Other Treatments for Cancer		 Sometimes the principles of chemistry are embedded in another science.  Sometimes it is not obvious that chemistry is at the heart of invention.   The story of the invention of the anticancer drug cisplatin is a story of chemistry hidden in the science of biology.


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