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==Endometriosis== Recently, dichloroacetate has been described as a potential breakthrough treatment for [[endometriosis]]. It has been shown to reduce pain from endometriosis and also reduce the size of lesions associated with endometriosis.<ref name="Horne2019">{{Cite journal | title = Repurposing dichloroacetate for the treatment of women with endometriosis| date = 2019-12-17 | url = https://pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1916144116|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=116|issue=51|pages=25389β25391|last=Horne | first = Andrew W. | last2 = Ahmad | first2 = S. Furquan | last3 = Carter | first3 = Roderick|last4=Simitsidellis | first4 = Ioannis | last5 = Greaves | first5 =Erin|last6=Hogg | first6 = Chloe|last7=Morton | first7 = Nicholas M. | last8=Saunders | first8 = Philippa T. K.|language=en|doi=10.1073/pnas.1916144116|pmc=PMC6925989|pmid=31792175|issn=0027-8424}}</ref><ref name="Devlin2023News">{{Cite news| title = Researchers optimistic about potential new treatment for endometriosis | first = Hannah | last = Devlin | date = Mar 8, 2023 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/08/endometriosis-new-treatment-non-hormonal-drug-dichloroacetate| publisher = The Guardian | access-date=2023-03-09}}</ref> Currently sodium dichloroacetate is approved in [[Canada]] as an orphan-drug, the only way of treating children with inborn mitochondrial-errors. It is also used off-label in alternative cancer clinics in North America, South America and Europe.<ref name="arcadia">{{Cite web | url = https://www.arcadia-praxisklinik.de/en/cancer-therapies/ | title = Cancer Therapies|website=Arcadia Praxisklinik|language=en-US|access-date=2021-05-29}}</ref>
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