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PisseArtiste t1_iuivdv2 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 5:43 PM

Reply to comment by darhox in TIL that chemotherapy can be traced back to the sinking of an Allied ship secretly carrying chemical weapons in WW2 by Rc72

The first chemotherapy drugs, some of which are still in use, are alkylating agents, and they're basically chemically similar and derived from mustard gas (which isn't a gas, incidentally).