Wiktionary
n. (context oncology pharmaceutical drug English) A simple organic compound of platinum, cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II), that is used as a chemotherapy agent against several types of cancer.
Wikipedia
Cisplatin, cisplatinum, platamin, neoplatin, cismaplat or cis-diamminedichloridoplatinum(II) (CDDP) is a chemotherapy drug. It was the first member of a class of platinum-containing anti-cancer drugs, which now also includes carboplatin and oxaliplatin. These platinum complexes react in the body, binding to DNA and causing the DNA strands to crosslink, which ultimately triggers cells to die in a programmed way.
The compound is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, a list of the most important medications needed in a basic health system.
Usage examples of "cisplatin".
Youman explained that the standard treatment protocol for tes-ticular cancer was called BEP, a cocktail of three different drugs, bleomycin, etoposide, and cisplatin, and they were so toxic that the nurses wore radioactive protection when handling them.
The most important ingredient of the three was cisplatin, which is actually platinum, and its use against testicular cancer had been pioneered by a man named Dr.
One of their findings is that the common chemotherapeutic drug cisplatin is particularly effective in killing cancer cells that have a specific defect in their ability to repair their DNA.