Metal-based anticancer drug research progress
Yuping Zhang · Dalian Yike Daxue xuebao · 2012
In recent years,metal-based anti-cancer drugs have become one important type among the new developing anti-cancer drugs.Metal-based anti-cancer drugs have many unique properties that are superior to those of other drugs.With the further understanding of the pharmacological action of the metal complexes,the new metal compounds with high efficiency,low toxicity,and anticancer activity were continuously synthesized.Those compounds included platinum anti-cancer drugs,organic tin complexes,organic germanium compound,palladium complexes,ruthenium complexes,copper coordination compounds,titanium compounds,etc.This article reviews research and application progress of these compounds in the anti-cancer field.