Human tests start on controversial Brazil cancer pill
Human tests start on controversial Brazil cancer pill
By AFP
July 26, 2016
Sao Paulo: Human testing started Monday in Brazil on a controversial anti-cancer medicine that has been distributed in the country for years without having gone through proper trials.
The drug, a synthetic phosphoethanolamine known widely as "the cancer pill," was beginning testing with 10 patients at the Sao Paulo Cancer Institute, the Sao Paulo state health department said.
None of those taking part in the trial are being treated with any other drugs, a statement said. If no serious side effects are noted, the trial will then be expanded to up to 1,000 people.
The pill was created by Sao Paulo University professor Gilberto Orivaldo Chierice in the 1990s. Despite claims of a miracle cure, there has been little evidence of its efficacy.
More:
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/137741-Human-tests-start-on-controversial-Brazil-cancer-pill
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You may remember DU poster in Brazil, Obenario, posted links on this research and development already:
Brazil to set up workgroup to study possible cancer cure
http://www.democraticunderground.com/122843157
Cancer patients ask Brazil Senators to allow experimental use of phosphoethanolamine
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110845479
ETC.
This is the first I've seen of this drug in the media since she posted the last material.
The ending of the new article might explain why we haven't heard more about this, with reflection. Remember cancer research itself is a powerful industry. The last of the original article says:
Shortly after the Supreme Court overruled her and said the medicine´s distribution would depend on it going through proper testing.
