Toad Venom In Cancer Treatment: Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Well-tolerated, Study Shows
September 24th, 2009
Huachansu, a Chinese medicine that comes from the dried venom secreted by the skin glands of toads, has tolerable toxicity levels, even at doses eight times those normally administered, and may slow disease progression in some cancer patients, say researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.