The consumption of anticancer drugs (also known as chemotherapy drugs or antineoplastic
drugs) has augmented over the last decades due to increased cancer incidence. Although …

In the past 20 years, the discharge of pharmaceuticals and their presence in the aquatic
environment have been continuously increasing and this has caused serious public health …

The performance of tertiary moving bed biofilm reactors (MBBRs) was evaluated in terms of
micropollutants (MPs) removal from secondary-treated municipal wastewater. After stepwise …

In this study, rice straw was used for synthesizing AC/KOH and AC/Fe3O4/ZnO as fresh
adsorbents for the elimination of Cyclophosphamide (CP) from water samples. In so doing …

Anticancer drugs are emerging contaminants that are being increasingly detected in urban
wastewater. However, there is limited knowledge on the use of biological wastewater …

Cytotoxic drugs applied in chemotherapy enter the aquatic environment after patient's
metabolism and excretion, in both main compounds and their respective metabolites. The …

BACKGROUND The occurrence of pharmaceutical compounds in wastewater has become a
major concern for human health and the environment. Therefore, it is an important challenge …

The following work provides a perspective on the degradation of cytostatic pollutants
through TiO2 heterogeneous photocatalysis. Cytostatic drugs are emerging pollutants used …

Featured Application This work gives an overview of the present status of anticancer drugs
in the environmental water of the Yodo River basin, a specific populated area in Japan. The …

Cytostatics are a class of pharmaceuticals of major concern due to their increasing
consumption in cancer therapy, their resistance to conventional wastewater treatment …