Alcohol-abuse drug disulfiram targets cancer via p97 segregase adaptor NPL4

Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 4 months ago to Science
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A drug used for decades to treat alcoholism, kills all cancer cells. One story I read says they discovered this back in 1973 when an alcoholic woman with breast cancer, untreated, fell out a window and had an autopsy that found she was "clinically free of cancer". Yet, this has been hanging around for 40 years? Seems a bit weird. Look at the date this was submitted before it was "accepted" and published....
SOURCE URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25016


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