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Health Canada warning about cancer pill sold online

by Little Monkey on Wed Feb 24, 2016 1:46 pm

This was in the Hamilton (ON, Canada) Spectator today.

"Warning: cancer pill sold online could release cyanide", Hamilton, Spectator, Feb 24, 2016 (full text of article)

Excerpts:
Health Canada is advising anyone who bought a natural health product claiming to treat cancer called Novodalin B17 to contact their doctor for a followup ...

Health Canada says Novodalin B17 "poses serious risks to health" because it purportedly contains apricot kernel extract.

That extract may contain amygdalin, which the agency says "has the potential to release cyanide when ingested by humans."

Little Monkey
Name: Little Monkey
Who do you know with myeloma?: Father-stage 1 multiple myeloma
When were you/they diagnosed?: March/April of 2015

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