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Research: Gold-based drug slows cancer tumor growth by 82%, outperforms chemotherapy

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oncodaily.com/insight/196108

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"Published in the European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, the research demonstrates that this novel gold compound is far more potent than the widely used chemotherapy drug cisplatin, showing 27 times greater effectiveness against cervical cancer cells in laboratory tests.

It was also 3.5 times more effective against prostate cancer and 7.5 times more effective against fibrosarcoma cells, offering a new avenue for more selective and targeted cancer therapies."

In mice for now. Not a PCA cure.

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NickJoy

It is about time those mice started sharing !

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Don717 in reply toNickJoy

Yeah! First free cannabis and now free gold!

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Mascouche

Let's hope its worth it weight in gold :)

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Derf4223

I already own some gold -- in my prostate don't you know, RT fiducials... Kidding aside, the gold in the research article is some chemical form that is highly reactive. Not even in phase 1 human trials yet. And per the article only makes chemo work 3.5x better and we all know that PCA can laugh at chemo when it comes to low tumor burdens / bone mets / micro mets / NEPCA...

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addicted2cycling

I'm waiting for Palladium 'cause I'm worth it.

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j-o-h-n

They say brass is good for your........

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n

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dhccpa

I suspect William Devane will mention this in his next gold commercial. I'll bet Bitcoin can't do that!

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