Anti-cancer drugs are chemotherapeutic agents that are designed to kill or reduce
proliferating cells. Often times, they interfere directly or indirectly with the cell's …

Water and wastewater quality research and management pertaining to emerging pollutants,
chemical or biological, for which discussion of occurrence surveys, fate and transport …

Even though ozone has been applied for a long time for disinfection and oxidation in water
treatment, there is lack of critical information related to transformation of organic compounds …

Anticancer drugs are harmful substances that can have carcinogenic, mutagenic,
teratogenic, genotoxic, and cytotoxic effects even at low concentrations. More than 50 years …

Cytostatic drug residues in the aqueous environment are of concern due to their possible
adverse effects on non-target organisms. Here we report the occurrence and removal …

The kinetics of the ozone consumption for the pretreatment of hospital wastewater has been
analysed in order to determine the reaction rate coefficients between the ozone and the …

Pharmaceuticals may undergo transformation into new products during almost all possible
processes along their life-cycle. This could either take place in the natural water …

Cyclophosphamide (CP) and ifosfamide (IF) are commonly used cytostatic drugs that
repress cell division by interaction with DNA. The present study investigates the ecotoxicity …

Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases nowadays. With a continuous growth in cancer-
affected patients, the consumption of cytostatic drugs in chemotherapy is also increasing. As …

For decades, cytostatic drugs have been widely used in chemotherapy. However, many of
these chemicals are classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic and teratogenic compounds …