Topic: Metastasis blocker?

[Nemesis]

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Mice implanted with cancer cells and treated with the small molecule macroketone lived a full life without any cancer spread, compared with control animals, which all died of metastasis. When macroketone was given a week after cancer cells were introduced, it still blocked greater than 80 percent of cancer metastasis in mice.

These findings provide a very encouraging direction for development of a new class of anti-cancer agents, the first to specifically stop cancer metastasis, says the study's lead investigator, Dr. Xin-Yun Huang, a professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medical College.

[stoneyface]

i hope this works out. i read about this yesterday and it looks promising. my adopted mom died of stage 4 metastasized breast cancer, something like this may have saved her life

[Nemesis]

Some of the women on my mothers side of the family have died the same way.  Other cancers have gotten men on her side as well.  Anything that helps is all to the good.