Toenail fungus medicine may treat cancer

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Imagine that, using antifungals to for cancer treatment and in

another article TB. Hmmmmmmmmm, anybody else see a connection

here??!!

Toenail fungus medicine may treat cancer

United Press International

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

ne_may_treat_cancer/

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.

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

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. "

The study appears online in ACS Chemical Biology.

" 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. "