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Morphine ‘might spread cancer’

BBC News – Laboratory tests suggest morphine could in fact encourage the spread of cancer, for which it is routinely prescribed to relieve pain from surgery and tumours. US scientists say the opiate promotes the growth of new blood vessels which deliver tumours oxygen and nutrients. Speaking at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Boston, they also claim to have found a drug which counters this effect. Read Article

Ed. – They are forgetting the research that says if you promote good blood supply of the tissues you can get more of a cancer-antagonist TO the cancer.


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  1. starman1695 Nov 24th 2009

    They also neglected to mention that people receiving morphine are usually in the last stages of the disease and only moments away from death, so what the hell difference does it make?


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