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Cancer pain reliever may spread the disease
Beijing News.Net
Monday 23rd November, 2009
US scientists have revealed that laboratory tests suggest morphine could encourage the spread of cancer, for which it is routinely prescribed.
Scientists believe the drug, which is used to relieve pain from surgery and tumours, may also
promote the growth of new blood vessels which deliver oxygen and nutrients to tumours.
Speaking at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Boston, Dr Patrick Singleton from the University of Chicago, said morphine not only strengthened blood vessels but also appeared to make it easier for cancers to spread to other tissues.
But, he said the scientists had found a drug to counter the morphine effect.
He said it could be overcome by a drug called methylnaltrexone, which was developed in the 1980s to prevent morphine-related constipation.
The drug is only approved in the US.
He revealed that in mice with lung cancer, MNTX inhibited the apparent tumour-promoting effects of opiates, and reduced the spread of cancer in the mice by 90%.
He said the new findings could change how surgical anaesthesia and analgaesics are supplied to cancer patients.
The tests were started it was noted that people receiving the MNTX opiate blocker survived longer after surgery.  Email this story to a friend
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Genius
11-23-09, 07:57 AM |
Cancer shock for morphine users
Ever wonder why problems are discovered right when there’s a drug to treat it? This is a wonderful, wonderful world full of wonderful coincidences. And we’re all so lucky to have these benevolent drug companies so concerned with our wallets. I mean health.
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Anonymous
11-23-09, 09:50 AM |
Filthy Pakis.
The filthy Pakis. the real Cancer of this world..
will be eliminated on this globe
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Moderator
11-23-09, 09:58 AM |
This type of post cannot be accepted
If you wish to make a comment about news stories that appear on this site please do so. Please refrain from making racist remarks otherwise your posts will have to be removed.
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Dark1
11-23-09, 10:19 AM |
Thanks
Thank you for reprimanding the racist comments. As for the article, I must take pain killing drugs do to a severe injury to my spine. This article worries me enough to check with my physicians. I have had a similar experience. I wondered if there were a weird connection. Thanks for the article
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Pakis.Imam
11-23-09, 11:05 AM |
This type of post is acceptable
You the sinners Moderator + Dark1 (age)
all have rights to express their oppinions
no matter how hateful they are...Koran says
that each of us accept temperaments of
human, which reflect to their traumas.
If you both are not prepared to welcome
writers...then you must retire to the stone age
Mecca and Medina...dont ever return to Pak.
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