Investigational Fibroid Drugs

[Guest guest]

Carla and all the LOL:

While doing some online research for my friend with advanced stage breast

cancer, I happened to stumble upon the FIBROID site mentioned below.

Here you'll find a chart of some (perhaps... all??) of the drugs currently

being investigated for the treatment of uterine fibroids.

Some drugs we all know all too well--- (Lupron, for instance), and then there

is the much-discussed Mifepristone and Asoprisnil......Also, note the

inclusion of the osteoporosis drug Raloxifene (which, someone here suffering

with

osteo....was that you, Ann???? already mentioned a while ago.)

But notice some new names (new to ME, anyway) on the list.....Pivfenidone and

Targretin. Perhaps Carla has some info.

{Forgive me if this has already been included in the UF archives somewhere.}

What I found most surprising is that the well-known drugs INTERFERON and

HEPARIN apparently are ALSO now being studied-- in fibroid research!

Interesting stuff....

Gives me a whole new respect for rats.....(well, at least for those

long-suffering lab rats with fibroids who are helping to advance the cause of

non-surgical remedies for uterine fibroid treatment.....)

Check it out:

Investigational Fibroid Drugs http://www.geocities.com/donnayah2000/

-Researchin' Roma