Antidepressants plus blood thinners cause brain cancer cells to eat themselves in mice

Scientists have been exploring the connection between tricyclic antidepressants and brain cancer since the early 2000s. There's some evidence that the drugs can lower one's risk for developing aggressive glioblastomas, but when given to patients after diagnosis in a small clinical trial, the antidepressants showed no effect as a treatment. In a study appearing in Cancer Cell on September 24, Swiss researchers find that antidepressants work against brain cancer...
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