About toxic effects of platinum anticancer drugs

• Authors: K. Waszkiewicz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The work present current view about toxic effects of platinum anticancer drugs. In the first part, the toxic effects of cisplatin as nephrotoxicity, ototoxicity, myelosuppression, anaphylacticlike reactions, neurotoxicity and gastrotoxicity are presented. The second part describes mechanisms of cisplatin. The third part, the toxicity of carboplatin and iproplatin are reviewed.

Keywords

EN

ANTICANCER DRUG; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; IPROPLATIN; NEPHROTOXICITY; PLATINUM; TOXICITY

Discipline

• EXPERIMENTAL_BIOLOGY_&_MEDICINE: EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY & MEDICINE

• Publisher: Index Copernicus International
• Journal: Postępy Higieny i Medycyny Doświadczalnej
• Year: 2001
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 387-406

Contributors

author

K. Waszkiewicz

• Document Type: ARTICLE
• Publication order reference: K. Waszkiewicz, Wydzia? Chemii Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego, Joliot Curie 14, 50-383 Wroclaw, Poland