Word: amethopterin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were as many dissents as there were theories, and since so few drugs cure viral infections, the very fact that potent anti-cancer drugs such as amethopterin (Methotrexate) and cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan) have cured massive cases of Burkitt's supermalignant tumor might seem to argue against a viral cause. But doctors now believe that what the drugs do is cure or relieve a viral-induced cancer, after the virus itself may have vanished. Thus they may give the body an opportunity to develop its own mechanisms to fight the cancer...
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