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Modified ecstasy 'attacks blood cancers'
BBC ^ | August 18, 2011 | James Gallagher

Posted on 08/20/2011 8:21:15 AM PDT by decimon

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".

In 2006, a research team at the University of Birmingham showed that ecstasy and anti-depressants such as Prozac had the potential to stop cancers growing.

The problem was that it needed doses so high they would have been fatal if given to people.

The researchers, in collaboration with the University of Western Australia, have chemically re-engineered ecstasy by taking some atoms away and putting new ones in their place.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: leukemia; lymphoma

1 posted on 08/20/2011 8:21:17 AM PDT by decimon
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To: neverdem; DvdMom; grey_whiskers; Ladysmith; Roos_Girl; Silentgypsy; conservative cat; ...

With a little help from your friends ping.


2 posted on 08/20/2011 8:22:15 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

Now, treat it just like marijuana, and legislate morality that says people should die rather than gain therapeutic value from something that began as a recreational drug. Because everyone knows people have cancer just as an excuse to use drugs.

This is the world we live in.


3 posted on 08/20/2011 8:26:52 AM PDT by tarotsailor
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To: decimon

4 posted on 08/20/2011 8:27:22 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: decimon
Are you sure this wasn't originally published in "High Times"?


5 posted on 08/20/2011 8:30:37 AM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: decimon

No only will your cancer be cured, you’ll be in love with everyone in the room.


6 posted on 08/20/2011 8:32:49 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: CaptainK

While gnawing on a wookie


7 posted on 08/20/2011 8:34:28 AM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: CaptainK

Re: your tagline

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Vhxm6Dsgk


8 posted on 08/20/2011 8:37:44 AM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: tarotsailor
Now, treat it just like marijuana, and legislate morality that says people should die rather than gain therapeutic value from something that began as a recreational drug. Because everyone knows people have cancer just as an excuse to use drugs.

Hope you're wrong and fear you're right.

If a drug is known as a medication and has a mind-altering effect then we call that a side effect and accept it. But if the drug is known as recreational...

9 posted on 08/20/2011 8:40:19 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

People die from elevated body temperature with ecstasy use. maybe boiling the blood also kills the cancer....


10 posted on 08/20/2011 8:56:20 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: decimon

Comedian Pablo Francisco talking about Ecstasy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ziMGYd3cgQ
(warning: some bad language)


11 posted on 08/20/2011 8:58:20 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Hotlanta Mike
From the article:
"Their early study showed all leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma cells could be killed in a test tube"
Begs the question . . .if "All" the cancer cells could be killed in a test tube, could the process be directed through blood transfusions or dialysis?
12 posted on 08/20/2011 9:04:49 AM PDT by wtd
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To: decimon

Ah, medicinal drugs that are fun to take will help with remembering.

“Is it time for my next dose of medicine yet?”

“You just had it 20 minutes ago!”


13 posted on 08/20/2011 9:15:35 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (This message carfully checkd to misteakes by powerful softwhere)
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To: mylife

Actually my tagline is from Will & Grace.


14 posted on 08/20/2011 9:24:50 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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I have never seen the darned show.


15 posted on 08/20/2011 9:39:32 AM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: decimon
Enhancing the anti-lymphoma potential of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (‘ecstasy’) through iterative chemical redesign: mechanisms and pathways to cell death
16 posted on 08/22/2011 10:37:32 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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