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Would the molecules cross the blood brain barrier? Is there a trial of this anywhere? (I have an inoperable brain tumor.)

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I’m not a doctor, this is very much not medical advice, and I’ve only been looking into these recently, but it does appear that the Benzimidazole class of medications from that recent cured-by-dog-dewormer post [0] like Albendazole and Mebendazole, both FDA approved as antihelmintics, do pass through the blood-brain barrier [1][2], and is currently used to that effect as a standard treatment for neurocysticercosis.

It appears a neurosurgery professor at Johns Hopkins that independently discovered the link was interested in it for that very reason [3].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20486893

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1874411/

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5403762/

[3]: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/30/5124002...

Thank you.

What’s that like? I’m sorry that happened to you.

I’m happy and haven’t had to buy lunch in the last couple of months. :-) I’ve still got a year or so till it kills me. It is difficult on my wife, family and friends.

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