Novel therapeutics include gold complexes like MC3, which upregulate p53 via the ROS formation and have shown effectiveness in colorectal cancer (Dabiri et al., 2019), as well as platinum-based compounds like bromocoumarinplatin 1 and diplatin, which activate p53 to overcome cisplatin or carboplatin resistance respectively in lung cancer (Lin X. et al., 2019; Ma et al., 2020). The gene discussed is TP53; the disease is lung cancer.