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California Lists 30 Chemicals Toxic to Health—Including Chemo Drug Amsacrine
Bleomycin was one of the cancer drugs to appear on California’s new “toxic chemicals” list.
Could it be that a chemical used in treating cancer could also cause cancer? According to the latest list of toxic chemicals released by the state of California, amsacrine, a chemotherapy drug, is also a carcinogen.
A drug used in the treatment of acute adult leukemia, amsacrine (Amsidine®) was found to cause tumors in Wistar rats, according to a study by Graziano M.J. and colleagues, with tumors showing up on the skin and in the uterus, small intestine, mammary gland, and thymus. According to Dr. Zuck of healthline.com, the drug is no longer commercially available in the U.S., but still is in Canada. (more…)
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