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RE: TX Press: Cancer turns to toxic toads

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Posted by: Upscale at Wed Jan 23 08:11:11 2008   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Upscale ]  
   

“Cohen hopes to come up with a pill form of the venom to use in the U.S. In China, the injections are given daily for 14 consecutive days, or five days a week for three weeks. That would be too costly at U.S. hospitals.”



Wow, you are talking fourteen or fifteen shots to see benefits in advanced liver, pancreatic and lung cancer but somehow that’s too expensive for U.S. hospitals?

That part of the toad story really jumped out at me…

   

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