Platinum chemotherapy may cause decades' worth of DNA changes in children's healthy cells

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Add as preferred source Histological image of a liver post chemotherapy. Credit: TRCE laboratory, Francis Crick Institute. The amount of DNA damage caused by certain chemotherapies used to effectively treat childhood cancer has been revealed, along with a hidden impact on the liver, paving the way for future research into new ways to mitigate these effects.