Cisplatin in Ovarian Cancer Treatment—Known Limitations in Therapy Force New Solutions

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Cisplatin is one of the most commonly used anticancer drugs worldwide. It is mainly used in the treatment of ovarian cancer, but also used in testicular, bladder and lung cancers. The significant advantage of this drug is the multidirectional mechanism of its anticancer action, with the most important direction being damaging the DNA of cancer cells. Unfortunately, cisplatin displays a number of serious...

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