Abstract:
Treatment of diseases with natural and synthetic
materials has been an aspiration of mankind since the dawn of human
development. From the use of willow-bark to the marketing
of aspirin, a steady move from folk remedies to the use of chemistry and biology
to develop new therapies has been observed.
In terms of metal-containing drugs, the platinum-containing drug
cisplatin has long been the most effective metal-containing anticancer drug on the market.