Modified ecstasy 'attacks blood cancers'

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.

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Posted By GanjaSoulDiver at 2011-08-22 14:56:58 permalink | comments

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Dononamous. : 2011-08-28 11:00:17

Nice observation johnathan

Poelster. : 2011-08-23 04:08:15

For whom is interested, here is the research article;
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Johnathan. : 2011-08-22 18:13:49

That would be a 100-fold increase in the drug's action against certain types of cancer, not a 100-fold increase its other, more well known effects :)

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