User:Alexjayne9/HuaSanChu

To:      Mrs. Stansell From:  Alex Jayne Date:   10/17/2012

Subject: I will explain my topic HuaChanSu and why I chose to write a Wikipedia article about it. I will discuss why the article will be interesting as well as why it is a good choice.

•	HuaChanSu is an extract from the skin of a Bufo toad. It has been used as a traditional Chinese medicine to help fight cancer. Researches have not fully understood how the extract works, but there have been many promising discoveries and trials.

•	The treatment is the injection of HuaChanSu into a cancerous area, which helps stop the malignant cells from growing or multiplying.

•	I chose HuaChanSu because it is an uncommon medicine that has very interesting qualities such as its ability to fight cancer. The fact that it is a natural extract that has been used in China for many years caught my interest.

•	HuaChanSu will make a good Wikipedia article, because it is a topic that not very many people know about. Thus the information that I will display will be valuable and useful. There are many different websites that talk about HuaChanSu and this medicine may play a role in the cure of cancer.

Sources: 1) National Cancer Institute, http://www.cancer.gov/drugdictionary?cdrid=637352

2) AACR Meeting, “Anti-proliferative activity of Huachansu, a Bufo toad skin extract, against human malignant melanoma cells”, Peiying Yang, Diana Chan, Mary Vijjeswarapu, Carrie Cartwright, Lorenzo Cohen, Zhiqiang Meng, Luming Liu and Robert A. Newman, 2006, http://www.aacrmeetingabstracts.org/cgi/content/abstract/2006/1/906-a

3) News Medical, “Huachansu May Slow Cancer Progression”, September 25, 2009, http://www.news-medical.net/news/20090925/Huachansu-may-slow-cancer-progression.aspx?page=2

Please let me know if you don’t think HuaChanSu would be a good topic for the Wikipedia article.

Alex