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Of the many approaches to the extremely difficult problem of establishing a chemotherapy of malignant diseases, one of the most encouraging has been the development of the cytotoxic chemicals related to the vesicant war gas 2-dichloroethyl sulphide (mustard gas). The first of these were the so called “nitrogen mustards”, methyl-2 dichloroethylamine CH3 • N(CH2CH2C1)2 and tri-2 chloroethylamine N • (CH2CH2C1)3. These compounds and related substances have been used extensively in the palliative treatment of leukaemia, lymphomas etc., and have proved a very useful form of therapy complementary to treatment by X-radiation.
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Elson, L.A. (1956). Comparative Haematological Effects of Cytostatics and Radiation. In: Begemann, H. (eds) Fünfter Kongress der Europäischen Gesellschaft für Hämatologie, Freiburg i. Br., 20. bis 24. September 1955 / Cinquième Congrès de la Société Européenne d’Hématologie, Freiburg i. Br., Allemagne, 20–24 Septembre 1955. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-35395-0_5
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