National Poetry Day

Get big cell kill from fluorouracil,
be a medicine man with melphalan,
keep things pristine with vincristine,
shout with glee with 6MP…
but, and this is important for today,
you can flatten ’em, with platinum.
 
Extract from ‘You can fix it with methotrexate’ by Professor Sir Kenneth Calman. For the full poem see Appendix 1, 'The Discovery, Use and Impact of Platinum Salts as Chemotherapy Agents for Cancer', p. 78