Pharmaceutical Roots: etoposide – the winding road from folk remedy to chemotherapy drug Kumar Jeetendra | August 9, 2023 Etoposide is a leading chemotherapy drug used widely in cancer treatment – but in particular against testicular and small cell lung cancer, which together account for more than 400,000 new cases worldwide each year. Although sourced from a plant used to treat many ailments for centuries, its development as an antineoplastic drug was “very tortuous” …
