Interesting. The sulfa drugs were developed from textile dyes.

Interesting article Cp. I always knew that red and yellow dye were horrible. I read somewhere also that any processed "orange" food gets its color from fire retardant. That's scary. I wonder too about tattoo ink. My favorite artist refuses to use red, orange, yellow, pink and some shades of purple. I wonder if he knows something I don't when it comes to those ink colors. Hmmmm.

I had read somewhere, and can't find it again, that there is a connection with Adriamycin and the colorant used on our car's rear red light covers. That there is a chemical used in both of them that gives it the lovely red color. Any body else hear that?

This is a very interesting thread. So is this why Macrobid turns some people's urine red?

To answer your question glennie, no he never said why. I didn't get a tattoo until after I was diagnosed with metastatic bc (bucket list and I didn't want to be one of those saggy tattoo seniors). When I filled out the consent form with all my medical history, the girl at the desk just recommended this guy, who subsequently said those colors are known to cause weird reactions in healthy people so I just took his advice when he said " why borrow trouble" and let him decide the colors. Got good vibes....cared about my health, knew his stuff.

Yes, I read the article. Then I read that PFIZER holds the co-patent on PV-10, which will have to be used in combination ('cos they say so) and then I no longer had faith in it. Heaven forbid they inject us with some dye and we're all cancer free. You don't really think that's going to happen do you? Used alone maybe, anything's possible, with Pfizer's mitts on it....never.

glennie19 your history of adriamycin is fascinating! Thanks for posting

Oh, and the co founder of the company just resigned! And also, the stock was selling for almost 3000 dollars a share in 2002. Oh, sorry, I saw where you just said that.

I found THIS very interesting:

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Msg 27232 of 27259 at 3/3/2016 1:19:12 PM by NickSanta They're coming around! The other day I posted about a breast cancer discussion forum where a member posted the Reuters article. I included their comments to show how blind they were to the potential of PV-10. I decided to join and reply to them. I even provided a link to Dom's blog. Here's what they are saying now... "I clicked on one link and thought it was interesting how they differentiate rose bengal ablation from cryoablation or hyperthermal ablation, which was the question forming in my mind. It's the antigens! Will read more later...thanks for the link." "NickSanta - that does paint a better picture of the response rate. I truly do hope it pans out in the long run. I lost a friend to melanoma 3 years ago." "I'm afraid I'm now preconditioned to be a bit skeptical of Phase 1 and 2 results because I participated in a neoadjuvant trial (Phase 3) that illustrated the difficult path to successful new treatments. In that study, Phase 1 and 2 returned pCR rates in the study arm that were 40 points higher than in the control group. It was phenomenal. But, once the protocol was tested in a large number of patients during Phase 3, the advantage completely disappeared. The final results were virtually identical in both arms of the study so statistically insignificant. "I sometimes think of the years of work and vast sums of money that went into the study I was in and the researchers' surprise at the final outcome. Research like this is so unpredictable!" "I hope this dye has continued success!"

The enthusiasm "NickSanta" displayed for this PV-10 cancer drug is dubious.
A simple google boolean search confirmed my suspicions.
He's an investor in Provectus Biopharmaceuticals, the company running the PV-10 clinical trials.
He's been a regular on the investorvillage.com investment forum for the last couple months posting about the stock, PVCT.
Based on the posts, he scours the internet looking for any news related to the stock. It's no coincidence that he registered for this forum after Heidihill posted this news. His comment above "This is the first I'm hearing of it" is an obvious lie.
I also found his investorvillage.com post, here, condescending towards the ladies (see image below since link may not work)

Is he a "caregiver"? Perhaps, but I seriously doubt it.
I find it a bit sad that he joined a cancer support forum to "talk up" an approach that doesn't have any relevance for this community.
While it's true that Provectus sponsored a PV-10 Phase 1 breast cancer trial, here, that ended in 2008 (15 patients), there appears to be no Phase II breast cancer trial on the horizon. We all know how the FDA drug approval process works, so EVEN if this was proven to work, it would be at least 5-10 years from the clinic.
Good luck with your penny stock Nick.

nicksanta- you are an ass. How dare you come on here and mislead people. Are you kidding me? We are bunch of women (and men) with breast cancer. You have the gall to join our forum and condemn a valid discussion, belittling us? I don't care how big or small your investment is, you are scum

you are not even supposed to be on this site. It's a safe place for us and you violated that. It is not a place to advertise or tout drugs with which you are affiliated.

He reminds me of Martin Shkreli a little. Or maybe quite a bit.

OKaaaay, you two! Who is Martin Shkreli??!!?!

Mods, I was more concerned because what he did was a very feeble attempt at stock manipulation. It really wasn't about him being here, at all, at least for me. Stock manipulation is a very serious crime. I did take note of his not so nice remarks. That's okay, though: I did get screen shots of all of his posts before his existence was erased from here.