mechlorethamine

drug

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In pharmaceutical industry: Early progress in cancer drug development
…early 1940s nitrogen mustard (mechlorethamine) was discovered to be effective in the treatment of human lymphomas. The efficacy of this treatment led to the widespread realization that chemotherapy for cancer could be effective. In turn, this realization led to extensive research, discovery, and development of other cancer chemotherapeutic agents.
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In anticancer drug
…cancer was the alkylating agent mechlorethamine, a nitrogen mustard that in the 1940s was found to be effective in treating lymphomas. In 1956 the antimetabolite methotrexate became the first drug to cure a solid tumour, and the following year 5-fluorouracil was introduced as the first of a new class of…
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