Arsenic and Thalidomide may be used to fight cancer
Monday, April 11, 2005
A gathering of more than a thousand medical researchers in Sydney, Australia, has been told that arsenic and Thalidomide — banned in the 1960s after being linked to gross birth abnormalities — held hope as a basis for new treatments, extending the lives of patients with an so-far incurable bone marrow cancer, multiple myeloma.
Diagnosis of the disease has increased by...