Posted by morganpmiller on June 30, 2009, at 21:28:00
In reply to Re: A similar study » morganpmiller, posted by linkadge on June 30, 2009, at 7:29:21
> Activity in mouse cells is one things. An actual human anticancer benefit is another.
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> In mice studies, sertraline has been linked to diabetes. Why would I take a drug that might induce a new disorder to treat melanoma which I don't have.
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I guess I was trying to point out that we may find benefits to antidrepressants for some people that we were not aware of before. Just like we may find risks that we were not aware of before.Any number of things can cause diabetes. I doubt that a normal healthy person that takes care of themselves is going to develop diabetes solely due to the fact that they have take Zoloft for several years. I think people need to learn how to take care of themselves. That seems to be more the issue here.
What if you were had a lot of sun damage over the years and Zoloft helped prevent melanoma from developing? I know I am speaking hypothetically. Maybe we will find out in the next few years that zoloft could act in a protective way against the development of melanoma. Just like maybe all SSRIs or at least a few of them carry the risk of making a certain part of the population more prone to sudden cardiac death. Who knows. No medication comes without risk, at least not in these early days of modern medicine.
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