Cisplatin Ip / Bp/ Usp

These Cisplatin IP / BP/ USP is a chemotherapy drug which is used to treat cancers including: sarcoma small cell lung cancer germ cell tumors lymphoma and ovarian cancer. While it is often considered an alkylating agent it contains no alkyls groups and does not instigate alkylating reactions so it is properly designated as an alkylating-like drug. Cisplatin is platinum-based and was the first medicine developed in that drug class. Other drugs in this class include carboplatin a drug with fewer and less severe side effects introduced in the 1980s and oxaliplatin a drug which is part of the FOLFOX treatment for colorectal cancer. The other names for cisplatin are DDP cisplatinum and cis-diamminedichloridoplatinum(II) (CDDP
The Penicillin of Cancer
Cisplatin is called the a penicillin of cancera because it is used so widely and it was the first big chemotherapy drug. Cisplatin also plays an interesting role in the history of chemistry.