JIM RISWOLD
CISPLATINUM
2013 high density polyurethane resin
15 x 15 x 5-5/8 inches

$3000.


Cisplatinum was discovered by bacteria.

In 1965, Barnett Rosenberg was researching the effects of an electric
field on the growth of bacteria. He noticed that bacteria cells stopped
dividing when exposed to an electric field, specifically because of the
two platinum electrodes he was using.

Rosenberg went on to prove that Cisplatinum cured solid tumors in rats.
On December 19, 1978, the FDA approved Cisplatinum for testicular and
ovarian cancers.

It has proved to be a real pain for testicular cancer. Cisplatinum has
increased the cure rate from 10% to 85%.

Cisplatinum has also proved to be the most debilitating chemotherapy
and may cause nephrotoxicity, neurotoxicity, nausea, vomiting, ototoxicity,
electrolyte disturbance, myelotoxicity and hemolytic anemia.

Those are some serious side effects. In the early days of its use and long
before the antinausea medications of today, patients threw up on average
12 times a day.

The severity of Cisplatinum’s side effects has earned it the dubious nickname
“Cisflatten.”