Definition of cisplatin in English:
cisplatin
nounsɪsˈplatɪnˌsisˈplat(ə)n
mass nounMedicine A cytotoxic drug used in cancer chemotherapy.
A coordination compound of platinum; chemical formula: Pt(NH₃)₂Cl₂
Example sentencesExamples
- The authors conclude that postsurgical chemotherapy that includes cisplatin increases the five-year survival rate in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer.
- It's true that these compounds aren't in the same side-effect league as, say, the old cytotoxic agents like cisplatin, but they're a long way from the lasering-in-on-the-single-important-factor storyline from a few years ago.
- In this study, researchers developed head and neck cancer cell cultures resistant to the chemotherapy drug cisplatin, a platinum-based drug frequently used to treat this type of cancer.
- Cancer drugs used for primary bone cancer include methotrexate, doxorubicin, and cisplatin.
- Prescribing patterns were more uniform for the older, more familiar drugs such as cisplatin, which showed a variation of about 2.3.
Origin
1980s: from cis- (sense 3) + platinum.