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cheri Tue Jul 12, 2011 03:54 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 04:04 PM
Is this it?

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

cheri Tue Jul 12, 2011 04:47 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 04:32 PM
Unfortunately, gold has been implicated in a few cases of AA:

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


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