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| Subject: Modified ecstasy 'attacks blood cancers' Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:34 pm | |
| Modified ecstasy could one day have a role to play in fighting some blood cancers, according to scientists.
Ecstasy is known to kill some cancer cells, but scientists have increased its effectiveness 100-fold, they said in Investigational New Drugs journal.
Their early study showed all leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma cells could be killed in a test tube, but any treatment would be a decade away.
A charity said the findings were a "significant step forward".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14572284 |
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