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cheri Tue Jul 12, 2011 02:54 PM
GOLD and leukemia treatment?
 
Someone mentioned about some "therapy" that involved gold dust, that attaches to leukemia cells, which are then radiated..........and then destroyed.
Sounds farfetched to me, but hey, you never know!

Anyone?

Marlene Tue Jul 12, 2011 03:04 PM
Is this it?

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la702782k

cheri Tue Jul 12, 2011 03:47 PM
Wow! You are quick Marlene!

Actually, I saw that but it looks like it's in the very early stages of development....

Lisa V Tue Jul 26, 2011 03:32 PM
Unfortunately, gold has been implicated in a few cases of AA:

http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrar...2/192.full.pdf


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