Arsenic shows promise as cancer treatment, Stanford study finds
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 07:42
in Health & Medicine
Miss Marple notwithstanding, arsenic might not be many people's favourite chemical. But the notorious poison does have some medical applications. Specifically, a form called arsenic trioxide has been used as a therapy for a particular type of leukaemia for more than 10 years. Now researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that it may be useful in treating a variety of other cancers...