This is newsworthy because the Swedish healthcare system recently discovered that prostate cancer patients who took oral Terbinafine to treat toenail fungus had much better cancer outcomes. The same holds for Terbinafine and colon cancer.
We are currently in the WTF is going on here phase. $5 of anti-fungal medication cuts some cancer death rates in half? Is a tiny amount of fungus in cancer tissue driving growth and metastasis? Does Terbinafine have some other anti-cancer mechanism?
We are currently in the WTF is going on here phase. $5 of anti-fungal medication cuts some cancer death rates in half? Is a tiny amount of fungus in cancer tissue driving growth and metastasis? Does Terbinafine have some other anti-cancer mechanism?