Description
Heptaplatin is a platinum-complexed anticancer chemotherapeutic compound approved in some countries for the treatment of gastric cancers. Heptaplatin exhibits anti-proliferative activity in models of head and neck squamous cell cancers when combined with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) as well as other, separate cancer cell lines.
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