Cisplatin - 50th anniversary

It is 50 years since the accidental discovery that cisplatin could be used as an anti-cancer drug.  An article in The Conversation this week by Nial Wheate and Michael Apps from the University of Sydney, Happy 50th anniversary to cisplatin, the drug that changed cancer treatment, looks at the history of the drug and explains how it is still relevant in cancer treatment today. The authors also explain that cisplatin is improving in becoming more effective and less toxic.