Questions

1. How do platinum-based drugs confer their cancer-fighting abilities?

a. Using metallic center to damage cancer cells

b. By damaging DNA

c. By enacting pathways to produce cancer-fighting cells

d. Extracting cancer cells through soft acid-soft base interactions

2. How do platinum-based drugs create DNA adducts?

a. Tetrahedral geometry

b. Octahedral geometry

c. cis-square planar geometry

d. trans-square planar geometry

3. What was the first platinum-based drug?

a. cisplatin

b. transplatin

c. picoplatin

d. vp-128