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This document discusses the history and development of platinum-based drugs for cancer treatment. Platinum drugs like cisplatin became widely used in the 1970s but have limitations like resistance and side effects. Newer compounds have since been developed, including phenanthriplatin. Phenanthriplatin was found to be more potent than cisplatin in cancer cell lines and has a different mechanism of action. Studies showed phenanthriplatin binds DNA covalently like cisplatin but provides more steric hindrance,

Author

Vanila Ais

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EN