General Correspondence

File consists of papers and general correspondence related to the seminar on, "The Discovery, Use and Impact of Platinum Salts as Chemotherapy Agents for Cancer", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 4 April 2006. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. The transcript of this seminar was published as Volume 30 of the Witness Seminar series, D.A. Christie and E.M. Tansey (editors), The Discovery, Use and Impact of Platinum Salts as Chemotherapy Agents for Cancer, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2007).

Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Sir Kenneth Calman), advisers/organisers of the meeting (Professor Paul Andrews, Dr Tony Woods and Dr Daphne Christie), editors of the published transcript (D.A. Christie and E.M. Tansey) and others include:

List of attendees, suggested outline of meeting, control sheets concerning feedback on transcripts, publishing permissions and marketing leaflets for the meeting.

Handwritten notes and copies of e-mails regarding the organisation of the meeting and notes between the organisers and editors regarding the transcript and accommodating people's comments.

Documents include;

A series of slides provided by Andrew J. Thomson, titled, "Cis-Platin Chemistry and Biochemistry (distributed at meeting).

A review paper titled, "Prevention of Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy Induced Emesis: Results of the 2004 Perugia International Antiematic Consensus Conference", Annals of Oncology, vol.17, pp.20-28, 2006 (distributed at meeting).