Re: Toenail fungus medicine may treat cancer

[Guest guest]

surprized? wonder what led them to try it?

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> Imagine that, using antifungals to for cancer treatment and in

> another article TB. Hmmmmmmmmm, anybody else see a connection

> here??!!

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> Toenail fungus medicine may treat cancer

> United Press International

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http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2007/04/28/toenail_fungus_medici

> ne_may_treat_cancer/

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> BALTIMORE, April 27 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say itraconazole, a

> drug commonly used to treat toenail fungus, can also block the

> growth of new blood vessels in cancer.

> The study by s Hopkins University found that mice treated with

> itraconazole had 67 percent reduced blood vessel growth.

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> " We were surprised, to say the least, that itraconazole popped up

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> a potential blocker of angiogenesis, " pharmacology professor Jun O.

> Liu said Friday in a release. " We couldn't have predicted that an

> anti-fungal drug would have such a role. "

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> The study appears online in ACS Chemical Biology.

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> " Our screening test did show that cholesterol-lowering statins also

> appear to stop blood vessel growth, " Jun said, " so there is likely

> some important connection between cholesterol and angiogenesis. "

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