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Show 953: Controlling Cancer with Unexpected, Inexpensive Drugs

Some old medicines used to treat other diseases may be of great use in controlling cancer.

Cancer will soon surpass heart disease as the leading cause of death both in the U.S. and world-wide. Billions have been spent on cancer research, but there is still an enormous gap between what we have learned about cancer and what is available to help prevent cancer or its recurrence.

Could Old Drugs Help in Controlling Cancer?

Global Cures, Inc., is devoted to promoting clinical research on scientifically promising, cost-effective treatments for cancer, through repurposing existing drugs. With the appropriate clinical studies, effective cancer treatments could become more readily accessible here and in other countries.

Our guests, Vikas and Vidula Sukhatme, co-founders of Global Cures, discuss how the immune system could be activated to fight cancer, and how venerable generic drugs such as aspirin, metformin, cimetidine and nitroglycerin might be used to dramatically reduce the risk of recurrence.  How can patients help collect the data needed to put these inexpensive drugs to good use?

This Week’s Guests:

Vidula Sukhatme, MS, is an epidemiologist, co-founder and CEO of Global Cures, Inc., of Newton, MA. The photo is of Vidula.

Vikas Sukhatme, MD, PhD, is an oncology researcher, Chief Academic Officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and Victor J. Aresty Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The website is Global-Cures.org.

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The podcast of this program will be available the Monday after the broadcast date. The show can be streamed online from this site and podcasts can be downloaded for free.

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About the Author
Terry Graedon, PhD, is a medical anthropologist and co-host of The People’s Pharmacy radio show, co-author of The People’s Pharmacy syndicated newspaper columns and numerous books, and co-founder of The People’s Pharmacy website. Terry taught in the Duke University School of Nursing and was an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology. She is a Fellow of the Society of Applied Anthropology. Terry is one of the country's leading authorities on the science behind folk remedies..
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