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Cisplatin is a well accepted agent used singly or in combination with other antitumor agents to treat a variety of human tumors, however, its use in combination with radiation is only now gaining wider attention.
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Picker, D.H. (1988). Platinum Radiosensitizers. In: Nicolini, M. (eds) Platinum and Other Metal Coordination Compounds in Cancer Chemotherapy. Developments in Oncology, vol 54. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1717-3_42
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