Modified ecstasy 'attacks cancers'

Modified ecstasy 'attacks cancers'

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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".

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This is fairly epic.

I dont want to create a drug discussion, but MDMA was once pronounced ot have 0 absolutely NO medical value at all, outside of psychiatric research in how MDMA can affect emotionals, which too quickly came to an end.

Now, like other banned substances in the past, we have a shift toward a VERY VERY valuable use for MDMA and how it may fight off "blood" cancers.

This is a step forward for cancer research and the drug industry.

What are your thoughts?

CAUTION: Please keep topics on MDMA cancer research and not drug use.

www.bbc.co.uk
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Damn so,,, "FALLOUT 3,,,is true,,,
and thats why there are only,,

crack,
ahhhh

left in the waste land,,,

....Rodger that, Bob!

Seems that it a dose 1/100 that of the unmodified MDMA would be needed.

Either means they made it more efficient, or just plain made a new kind of ecstasy that is 100 times stronger.

Be interesting when they roll around to the human trials.
(no pun intended)

Many substituted phenylethyamines, amphetamines and tryptamines have positive medical benefits in many conditions and diseases. It is too bad they are vilified and so hard to gain access for study or I expect many more benefits from these chemicals would have been realized long ago.
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i still think that sodium dichloroacetate needs tweaking like this. it seems a much better solution, but this would be able to be patented, money made, so would see the open market. thats the double edge. there is no money where there is no cancer

so maybe my careless youth is the reason I'm so healthy now days...

Unless this thread returns to the very important message the OP has brought up, it will be binned.

As it is, it's going to be moved to the appropriate forum.

Ironic that it's chemical relativity and the headline are consigning this to a "drug" issue instead of a cancer issue. This is not ""ecstasy'' but a substituted propylamine.Just to correct the issue at hand and defer more anecdotal posts about a loosly related substance.
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