Nice news about treating auto-immune diseases with an already tested drug ...

LucySW

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Article published today, 'Protecting us from our cells: Research could speed trials to treat auto-immune diseases': http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141022084254.htm

"These studies have real clinical significance, because IGF-1 is already an approved therapeutic, which has been tested in many different settings, so it will be much easier to start clinical trials for IGF-1 in auto-immune and inflammatory diseases than it would if we were proposing a new, untested drug,' says Nadia Rosenthal, former Head of EMBL Monterotondo, and currently at Imperial College London, UK, and Monash University, Australia, where she is Scientific Head of EMBL Australia."​
 
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I'm a bit surprised / confused by this article - as IGF-1 is strongly linked to cancer, particularly in over 40's (lots of info on google).

Given that peeps with autoimmune 'stuff' are also at higher risk of cancer, this theory doesn't make sense to me... At least in terms of, it seems a risky choice/route to take...?


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LucySW

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Oh. Gosh. Thanks, Artemis. Echo your bafflement (know nowt about this).

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