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Can thymosin alpha 1 cause cancer?

This site's thymosin alpha-1 citations do not measure cancer incidence as an outcome. They report a 98-person hepatitis B trial (complete virological response at 18 months in 40.6% after a 26-week course versus 9.4% of untreated controls) and the TESTS sepsis trial (1,106 adults; 28-day mortality 23.4% versus 24.1% on placebo). Cancer supportive care is listed as a research area, which is not a counted cancer-cause finding. This FAQ does not invent a cancer rate from silence.

Educational use only. This database summarizes published research and is not medical advice. Where a dose appears it is a record of what a trial or clinic ran, or what people describe doing, with its source attached. Nothing here is a recommendation for personal use.

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