From a 2011 article
Canadian researchers find a simple cure for cancer, but major pharmaceutical companies are not interested.
Researchers at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada have cured cancer last week, yet there is a little ripple in the news or in TV. It is a simple technique using very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is currently used to treat metabolic disorders. So, there is no concern of side effects or about their long term effects.
This drug doesn’t require a patent, so anyone can employ it widely and cheaply compared to the costly cancer drugs produced by major pharmaceutical companies.
Canadian scientists tested this dichloroacetate (DCA) on human’s cells; it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells and left the healthy cells alone. It was tested on Rats inflicted with severe tumors; their cells shrank when they were fed with water supplemented with DCA. The drug is widely available and the technique is easy to use, why the major drug companies are not involved? Or the Media interested in this find?
In human bodies there is a natural cancer fighting human cell, the mitochondria, but they need to be triggered to be effective. Scientists used to think that these mitochondria cells were damaged and thus ineffective against cancer. So they used to focus on glycolysis, which is less effective in curing cancer and more wasteful. The drug manufacturers focused on this glycolysis method to fight cancer. This DCA on the other hand doesn’t rely on glycolysis instead on mitochondria; it triggers the mitochondria which in turn fights the cancer cells.
The side effect of this is it also reactivates a process called apoptosis. You see, mitochondria contain an all-too-important self-destruct button that can’t be pressed in cancer cells. Without it, tumors grow larger as cells refuse to be extinguished. Fully functioning mitochondria, thanks to DCA, can once again die.
With glycolysis turned off, the body produces less lactic acid, so the bad tissue around cancer cells doesn’t break down and seed new tumors.
Pharmaceutical companies are not investing in this research because DCA method cannot be patented, without a patent they can’t make money, like they are doing now with their AIDS Patent. Since the pharmaceutical companies won’t develop this, the article says other independent laboratories should start producing this drug and do more research to confirm all the above findings and produce drugs. All the groundwork can be done in collaboration with the Universities, who will be glad to assist in such research and can develop an effective drug for curing cancer.
You can access the original research for this cancer here.
This article wants to raise awareness for this study, hope some independent companies and small startup will pick up this idea and produce these drugs, because the big companies won’t touch it for a long time.
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trying to find a cure for cancer for decades and once someone finds a way, it wouldnt make money! fuck those money grubbing companies
i agree!!!! ppl these das!!!
Tnt give up Guys try and talk to some kiwi scientists it could go off in new zealand cause of the ozone cancer is fife even on people that dont go to get checked on they might Want some to clean the cancer growing on there arms legs back from sunburn which doesnt heart till its to late then deadly plus we dont care about money we are happy to live of $50 a week least we have power tv internet food water i even have a car
dam insert key I ment Dont give up life finds a way
As a cancer researcher, unless this was done in people not culture dishes or rodents, there is a loong way to go before anyone can say ‘scientists cure cancer.’
Many many currently used drugs have cured mice of cancer.
Translating complete success in cultured dishes and small animals to people doe not happen.
Doing some quick Googling and PubMed-ing, DCA has started to be used off-label by doctors as a cancer therapy since perhaps mid 2007. They are now actively doing numerous clinical trials to investigate the antitumor efficacy of DCA in people doing proper experimental controls (comparing DCA with some other drug). DCA does seem to have potent and specific anticancer effects. My guess is that it is not a magic bullet, as cancer is a terribly challenging and ever evolving disease. Treat it with one thing and it just gets resistant to that, so you have to keep trying different stuff.
here are the clinical trials ongoing with DCA. This is a good resource for patients at their wits end who are willing to try anything. It takes courageous volunteers to develop the drugs we all take for granted. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=dichloroacetate
So in the end it looks like scientists and clinicians are researching it and trying it in people despite it not being a patented drug. which if it does work, should bring the cost of some cancer treatments down…though I wouldn’t keep your hopes up.
Long story short Big Pharma and the Government is not trying to keep this treatment from you.
You must not be paying any attention to their on going historical policy making…Lobbies rule government not people……
AND!!!!!! ….wait for it…….!!! drug companies lobby governments to make it Illegal to use or make this drug…….
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