Picking a poison for brain tumours: Arsenic
Monday, January 3, 2011 - 14:51
in Health & Medicine
Arsenic is usually thought of as a poison. Despite this, it has been used in medicine for over 2000 years, and the arsenic compound arsenic trioxide (ATO) is FDA approved for the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukaemia. Now, a team of researchers, led by Aykut Ueren, at Georgetown University Medical Centre, Washington, has generated data using human cancer cell lines that suggest that ATO might also be of benefit to individuals with certain brain tumours or connective tissue tumours...