Arsenic And Leukaemia

“Scientists solve riddle of arsenic cancer treatment” is the headline in The Guardian today. Although arsenic is poisonous and has been associated with an increased risk of cancer, paradoxically, “compounds of the metal have also been used to treat leukaemia” in the past, the newspaper adds, and it is still used to treat one form of the disease: acute promyelocytic leukaemia.

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Filed under: Lymphoma / Leukemia on April 17th, 2008