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		<title>Antimalarial Artesunate&#8217;s potential against cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 23:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Chang MD FACP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artemisinin or Qinghaosu (青蒿素), derived from the leafy portions of the sweet wormwood plant Artemisia annua L. or qinghao (青蒿), and isolated in 1972 by Chinese chemists, is a potent anti-malarial that has revolutionized modern malaria treatment.  What makes this and related bioactive derivatives super interesting is that they exhibit potent anticancer effects in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cancerx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383687&amp;post=262&amp;subd=cancerx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-HIV&#8217;s now also anti-cancer ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 07:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its been a while since I last updated here, and there are many potential off-label drugs for cancer that should be NEXT written about, but one category that deserves immediate attention are the anti-HIV drugs.  One of them, Nelfinavir, was even called &#8220;a magic bullet to annihiltate cancer cells&#8221; recently (Cancer Biol Ther. 2009 Feb;8(3):233-5). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cancerx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383687&amp;post=249&amp;subd=cancerx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urso as Chemopreventative</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 06:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Off-label therapeutic inspirations sometimes come from my patients. And this one came from Noreen T.  Noreen has advanced metastatic breast cancer refractory to almost all treatments and has just started on an investigational Dendritic vaccine + Zadaxin (thymosin) but her disease is progressing rapidly with rising markers and an obstructive jaundice caused by liver metastases.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cancerx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383687&amp;post=196&amp;subd=cancerx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Noscapine near perfect?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 05:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Chang MD FACP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Solid science, potential efficacy, minimal toxicity and low cost &#8211; that would be a nearly perfect anti-cancer, wouldn&#8217;t it? This is not an entirely new one.  Noscapine (also, see NCI drug dictionary) a naturally derived and existing ingredient of OTC cough medicines in some countries, it has more data backing its usefulness against cancer than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cancerx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383687&amp;post=186&amp;subd=cancerx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clarithromycin for lung cancer</title>
		<link>http://cancerx.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/clarithromycin-for-lung-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advanced comments welcome &#8230; In the process of reasearch and writing up, thank you for your patience !<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cancerx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383687&amp;post=175&amp;subd=cancerx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Artesunate and Antimalarials for Cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advanced comments welcome &#8230; In the process of reasearch and writing up, thank you for your patience !<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cancerx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383687&amp;post=146&amp;subd=cancerx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gamma-Delta Immunotherapy</title>
		<link>http://cancerx.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/%ce%b3%ce%b4-gamma-delta-immunotherapy-for-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Chang MD FACP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Preamble γδ T cells or &#8220;gammadelta&#8221; T cells are unique to primates and represent a minority white cell in our blood (0.5-5%); yet they play an essential role in sensing &#8216;danger&#8217; by invading pathogens as they expand dramatically in many acute infections and may be a key fighter in cancer as well.  I want [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cancerx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383687&amp;post=123&amp;subd=cancerx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amino Bisphosphonates as Anti-Cancers</title>
		<link>http://cancerx.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/amino-bisphosponates-as-anti-cancers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Chang MD FACP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The use of bisphosphonates (eg Aredia, Zometa, Clodronate) for cancer is not new and is not considered off-label, so why this blog? Well, these agents are only applied narrowly and used palliatively in most cases, ie only in certain cancers (notably myeloma, breast, prostate and more recently lung cancers) and only when there is bone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cancerx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383687&amp;post=119&amp;subd=cancerx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adjuvant Clodronate for Breast Cancer</title>
		<link>http://cancerx.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/clodronate-for-breast-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Chang MD FACP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clodronate is a first generation bisphosphonate (a.k.a. clodronic acid, marketed under the Brand names of Bonefos, Clasteon, Difosfonal, Loron, Mebonat and Ossiten in Europe &#38; the U.K., Canada, and elsewhere, not yet commercially available in the US, where the FDA deems it &#8220;approvable&#8221; as of 2005 ) that shares with its more famous cousin Fosamax [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cancerx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383687&amp;post=117&amp;subd=cancerx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tetracyclines for cancer</title>
		<link>http://cancerx.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/tetracyclines-for-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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