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Super-Sizing A Cancer Drug Minimizes Side Effects, Harvard University And Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Study
7/30/2010

Physorg -- One of the first chemotherapy drugs given to patients diagnosed with cancer — especially lung, ovarian or breast cancer — is cisplatin, a platinum-containing compound that gums up tumor cells’ DNA. Cisplatin does a good job of killing those tumor cells, but it can also seriously damage the kidneys, which receive high doses of cisplatin because they filter the blood.

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