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by StartledGoat 3928 days ago
What's the name of the drug? (My Portuguese is non-existent)
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mishakorolev 3928 days ago
My Portuguese is terrible, but enough to parse that. The drug appears to be "fosfoetanolamina sintética" or synthetic Phosphorylethanolamine, which its Wikipedia page seems to say that it has anti cancer uses. As I have no bio chem or medical background I can't evaluate that claim.

The article says that it is formed by combining mono -ethanolamine with phosforic acid.

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jdahlin 3928 days ago
English wikipedia is actually quoting a paper[1] co-authored by Gilberto Orivaldo, who is distributing the drug for free.

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22213293

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