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PostSubject: Modified ecstasy 'attacks blood cancers'   Modified ecstasy 'attacks blood cancers' Icon_minitimeFri Aug 19, 2011 9:34 pm

Modified ecstasy could one day have a role to play in fighting some blood cancers, according to scientists.

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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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