Hydrazine sulfate

Hydrazine sulfate
Hydrazine sulfate
IUPAC name
Hydrazinium hydrogen sulfate
Other names
Hydrazine sulphate
Identifiers
CAS number 10034-93-2 YesY
PubChem 24842
ChemSpider 23225 YesY
UNII 1N369SAT01 YesY
EC number 233-110-4
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Properties
Molecular formula H6N2O4S
Molar mass 130.12 g mol−1
Solubility in water 30 g/L (20°C)
Hazards
MSDS External MSDS
EU Index 007-008-00-3
EU classification Toxic TDangerous for the Environment (Nature) NCorrosive C
 YesY sulfate (verify) (what is: YesY/N?)
Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C, 100 kPa)
Infobox references

Hydrazine sulfate is the salt of hydrazine and sulfuric acid. Known by the trade name Sehydrin, it is a chemical compound that has been used as an alternative medical treatment for the loss of appetite (anorexia) and weight loss (cachexia) which is often associated with cancer.[1][2][3][4] Hydrazine sulfate has never been approved in the US as safe and effective in treating any medical condition, although it is marketed as a dietary supplement.[5] It is also sold over the Internet by websites that promote its use as a cancer therapy.[6] It is used in palliative care for terminal cancer patients in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union.[7]

The main proponent of hydrazine sulfate as an anti-cancer agent is a U.S. physician named Joseph Gold, who developed the treatment in the mid-1970s. The use of hydrazine sulfate as a cancer remedy was popularized by the magazine Penthouse in the mid 1990s, when Kathy Keeton, wife and business partner of the magazine's publisher Bob Guccione, used it in an attempt to treat her metastatic breast cancer.[8] Nutritionist Gary Null wrote three of the articles about alternative cancer teatments, including one entitled "The Great Cancer Fraud."[9] Keeton (until her death in 1997) and other supporters of hydrazine sulfate treatment accused the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) of deliberately hiding the beneficial effects of the compound, and threatened to launch a class action law suit.[10][11] The NCI denied the claims,[12] and says that there is little to no evidence that hydrazine sulfate has any beneficial effects whatsoever.[5] The position of the NCI was supported by an inquiry held by the General Accounting Office.[13]

A review of the clinical research concluded that hydrazine sulfate has never been shown to act as an anticancer agent; patients do not experience remissions or regressions of their cancer, and patients do not live longer than non-treated patients.[5][14][15] Some academic reviews of alternative cancer treatments have described the compound as a "disproved and ineffective treatment for cancer",[16][17] while other more positive reviews describe its value as a supplementary cancer therapy to be "uncertain" and requiring further research to substantiate.[14]

Hydrazine sulfate also has a variety of uses in the chemical industry.[18]

Contents

Chemistry

Hydrazine sulfate is a commercially available form of hydrazine. It is a white solid, prepared by reacting an aqueous solution of hydrazine with sulfuric acid:[19] it is soluble in water, and the original hydrazine can be reformed by simply adjusting the pH. It has a number of laboratory uses in analytical chemistry and organic synthesis.

It may be preferred over pure hydrazine or hydrazine hydrate for laboratory use because it is easily purified if necessary (by recrystallization from water),[19] and it is less volatile and less susceptible to atmospheric oxidation on storage. These same properties make it the preferred form of hydrazine for dietary supplements and pharmaceutical trials. It is relatively inexpensive, with 100 grams of analytical grade hydrazine sulfate costing about USD20, and 100 tablets or capsules (60 milligrams hydrazine sulfate) costing USD20–60.

Industrial uses

Hydrazine sulfate also has a variety of uses in industrial chemistry, including as a chemical intermediate, as a catalyst in making fibers out of acetate, as a fungicide, antiseptic, in the analysis and synthesis of minerals and testing for arsenic in metals.[18]

Background

Hydrazine sulfate was specifically developed as a result of a proposal by Joseph Gold for a therapy that could offset the rapid loss of weight that occurs in cancer (cancer cachexia). This hypothesis was based on the fact that cancer cells are often unusually dependent on glycolysis for energy (the Warburg effect), Gold proposed that the body might offset this increased glycolysis using gluconeogenesis, which is the pathway that is the reverse of glycolysis. Since this process would require a great deal of energy, Gold thought that inhibiting gluconeogenesis might reverse this energy requirement and be an effective treatment for cancer cachexia.[20] Hydrazine is a reactive chemical that in the test tube can inactivate one of the enzymes needed for gluconeogenesis, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEP-CK). It was also postulated that if tumor energy gain (glycolysis) and host-energy loss (gluconeogenesis) were functionally interrelated, inhibition of gluconeogenesis at PEP CK could result in actual tumor regression in addition to reversal or arrest of cancer cachexia.[21] In this model, hydrazine sulfate is therefore thought to act by irreversibly inhibiting the enzyme phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase.

Clinical trials

Joseph Gold, the developer and principal proponent of hydrazine sulfate, has published several papers arguing that the compound is an effective cancer treatment.[14][22] These data have been questioned by the American Cancer Society and other investigators have been unable to repeat or confirm these results.[14][23] Gold is reported not to trust the motives or results of other investigators, with CNN quoting him as stating that "they've been out to get hydrazine sulfate, and I don't know why".[24]

In response to these results, an uncontrolled clinical trial was carried out at the Petrov Research Institute of Oncology in St. Petersburg over a period of 17 years,[7][14] and a controlled trial was carried out at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in California over period of 10 years, respectively. The Russian trial reported complete tumor regression in about 1% of cases, a partial response in about 3% of cases and some subjective improvement of symptoms in about half of the patients.[7] The National Cancer Institute analysis of this trial notes that interpretation of these data is difficult, due to the absence of controls, the lack of information on prior treatment and the study's reliance on subjective assessments of symptoms (i.e. asking patients if the drug had made them feel any better).[25] Overall, the trials in California saw no statistically-significant effect on survival from hydrazine sulfate treatment, but noted increased calorie intake in treated patients versus controls.[26] The authors also performed a post-hoc analysis on one or more subgroups of these patients, which they reported as suggesting a beneficial effect from treatment. The design and interpretation of this trial, and in particular the validity of this subgroup analysis, was criticized in detail in an editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.[27]

Later randomized controlled trials trials failed to find any improvement in survival,[28][29] For example, in a trial of the treatment of advanced lung cancer, with either cisplatin and vinblastine or these drugs plus hydrazine sulfate, saw complete tumor regression in 4% of the hydrazine group, versus 3% in the control group, and tumor progression in 36% of the hydrazine group, versus 30% of the control group; however, none of these differences were statistically significant.[30] Some trials even found both significantly decreased survival and significantly poorer quality of life in those patients receiving hydrazine sulfate.[31] These consistently negative results have resulted in hydrazine sulfate being described as a "disproven cancer therapy" in a recent medical review.[17] Similarly, other reviews have concluded that there is "strong evidence" against the use of hydrazine sulfate to treat anorexia or weight loss in cancer patients.[32][33]

Side effects

Hydrazine sulfate is toxic and carcinogenic.[34][35] Nevertheless, the short-term side effects reported in various clinical trials are relatively mild:[6] minor nausea and vomiting, dizziness and excitement, polyneuritis (inflammation of the nerves) and difficulties in fine muscle control (such as writing). However, more serious, even fatal side effects have been reported in rare cases: one patient developed fatal liver and kidney failure,[36] and another developed serious symptoms of neurotoxicity.[37] These side effects and other reports of hydrazine toxicity[26][27] are consistent with the hypothesis that hydrazine may play a role in the toxicity of the antibiotic isoniazid, which is thought to be metabolized to hydrazine in the body.[6]

Hydrazine sulfate is also a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI),[38] and is incompatible with alcohol, tranquilizers and sleeping pills (benzodiazepines and barbiturates), and other psycho-active drugs, with pethidine (meperidine, Demerol), and with foods containing significant amounts of the amino acid tyrosine, such as most cheeses, raisins, avocados, processed and cured fish and meats, fermented products, and others.

References

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