Could a $1.50 pill stop bowel cancer?

Subject: Could a $1.50 pill stop bowel cancer? Sun Oct 04, 2015 8:47 pm

An antimalarial pill costing just $1.50 a pop is being tested as a potential new wonder drug for people with bowel cancer.

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Could a $1.50 pill stop bowel cancer? 021015heapills3

This year, an estimated 17,000 people will be diagnosed with bowel cancer in Australia and more than 4,000 will die. About six out of 10 people with the disease survive beyond five years.

But a small trial of the drug artesunate, which is based on an ancient Chinese herbal remedy, looks promising as a cancer treatment.

Many researchers now believe old-fashioned cheap drugs like this will be the next big breakthrough in cancer treatment. A recent study showed that a daily dose of aspirin can double the life expectancy of patients with some cancers.

Dorothy Bradshaw, 65, was part of the clinical trial at St George’s University of London looking at the cancer-fighting potential of artesunate five years ago. She took pills every day for two weeks before surgery to remove her colon containing a 3.5cm tumour but since she had no side effects she assumed she was in the placebo group and forgot all about it.

“I was too busy trying to concentrate on survival,” said Miss Bradshaw, who cheerfully rang round her friends and family to say hello when secretly she was saying goodbye.

http://health.thewest.com.au/news/2321/could-a-150-pill-stop-bowel-cancer

Could a $1.50 pill stop bowel cancer?

Could a $1.50 pill stop bowel cancer?

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