What Is the Relationship Between Carbidopa and Levodopa?
Levodopa is always combined with another medicine(either benserazide or Carbidopa).
Carbidopa as an anti-cancer agent to treat pancreatic cancer would be something truly amazing.
Carbidopa is never used by itself as a drug for any disease," she adds.
But[…] we believe that the
reduced incidence of most cancers in Parkinson's disease patients is due to Carbidopa.".
Hence," the authors explain,"Carbidopa could potentially be repurposed to treat pancreatic cancer
and possibly other cancers as well.".
Hence Carbidopa could potentially be repurposed to treat pancreatic cancer
and possibly other cancers as well,” the authors speculated.
In cell cultures, Carbidopa"significantly reduced the number of colonies in both the cell
lines compared with the untreated controls.".
The new research suggests that Carbidopa, which is a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration(FDA)
and widely used to treat Parkinson's disease, has significant anti-cancer properties.