Cancer by far is our worst enemy. Forget about guns because you can heal quickly from a gun wound. Cancer is one of those diseases that kills you from the inside. It lurks within your body undetected until one day you go to the doctor for a check-up and something came back abnormal. Once the prognosis is there, the next dreaded word is chemotherapy (#chemo). The word is out on chemo and how devastating it actually is. It … [Read more...]
Methotrexate for Cancer
Methotrexate (MTX, Amethopterin) is an antimetabolite and antifolate drug. That is what doctors will tell you. Let’s clarify it. An antimetabolite if taken literally is a chemical that inhibits or prevents the use of metabolite. Now, a metabolite is a chemical used in the process of metabolism which is the way your body functions on the cellular level. Methotrexate is also an antifolate drug because it inhibits the use … [Read more...]