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2 stories tagged "brain-cancer"

Cancer

For Twenty Years, a Vitamin B12 Cancer Drug Has Worked in Mice, Dogs, and Rats. It Still Hasn't Reached a Human Trial.

Nitrosylcobalamin crossed the blood-brain barrier and pooled in a rat's brain tumor. This study didn't shrink one, the synergy ran in a petri dish, and the scientist behind the headlines holds the patents.

Cancer

Twenty Years of Nothing on Brain Cancer, and the Best New Lead Is a Vitamin Nobody Can Patent

A University of Calgary trial added high-dose niacin to standard glioblastoma treatment and reported 82% of 24 patients progression-free at six months. The design is single-arm and early, but the molecule is a cheap, unpatentable vitamin.