Ecstasy versus cancer

August 23, 2011

A TEAM of scientists, including researchers at the University of Western Australia, say that the illicit drug ecstasy may be able to play a cancer-fighting role at some stage in the future. A report in the Investigational New Drugs journal details how they have re-engineered ecstasy, with one of the variants increasing the drug’s cancer-fighting effectiveness by more than 100 times.

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Pharmacy Daily | Ecstasy versus cancer

Ecstasy versus cancer

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