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 Jint3i rated 18 months ago -
From the page: "Since the original publication of this article we have been inundated with responses from the public at all walks of life. It is important to note that research is ongoing with DCA, and not everyone is convinced it will turn out to be a miracle drug. There have been many thera...
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- flyingrose rated 11 months ago
- Cancer treatment is a huge profit generating industry. There is little incentive to actually publicize a cure unless it will make a lot of money. Check the history on Essiac and other naturopathic cures and you'll find out what usually happens to that kind of information.
http://Kymus.stumbleupon.com said it well: "Funny, I've been saying this for years. When the cure comes from complementary & alternative medicine, it's a "kooky conspiracy theory" to think that it would be suppressed because profits can't be gained from it; but when it comes from modern medicine, apparently then it's magically not a kooky idea. Cures for cancer have existed for thousands of years. The suppressing of this particular cure is of no surprise to me."
I personally find mainstream Western medicine's ideas of what constitutes reasonable treatments highly illogical and in many instances far worse than the diseases they're intended to treat.
From the page: "Since the original publication of this article we have been inundated with responses from the public at all walks of life. It is important to note that research is ongoing with DCA, and not everyone is convinced it will turn out to be a miracle drug. There have been many therapies that were promising in vitro and in animal models that did not work for one reason or another in humans. To provide false hope is not our intention. There is a lot of information on DCA available on the web, and this column is but one opinion on the topic. We hope you will do your own research into the situation. So, we have added links to resources at the end of this column. If you are arriving here form a linking website like Fark, then those links will not appear because they tend to grab only the text. For those visitors, here is a link to the original research: www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca
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Scientists may have cured cancer last week.
Yep.
So, why haven't the media picked up on it?"
- compuveg rated 11 months ago
- From the page: "Here's the deal. Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada found a cheap and easy to produce drug that kills almost all cancers. The drug is dichloroacetate, and since it is already used to treat metabolic disorders, we know it should be no problem to use it for other purposes.
Doesn't this sound like the kind of news you see on the front page of every paper?"
I would've expected the media to really pick up on this. I'll do more reading to see if I've been had.
- Jint3i rated 18 months ago
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From the page: "Since the original publication of this article we have been inundated with responses from the public at all walks of life. It is important to note that research is ongoing with DCA, and not everyone is convinced it will turn out to be a miracle drug. There have been many therapies that were promising in vitro and in animal models that did not work for one reason or another in humans. To provide false hope is not our intention. There is a lot of information on DCA available on the web, and this column is but one opinion on the topic. We hope you will do your own research into the situation. So, we have added links to resources at the end of this column. If you are arriving here form a linking website like Fark, then those links will not appear because they tend to grab only the text. For those visitors, here is a link to the original research: www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca
END NOTE
Scientists may have cured cancer last week.
Yep.
So, why haven't the media picked up on it?
Here's the deal. Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada found a cheap and easy to produce drug that kills almost all cancers. The drug is dichloroacetate, and since it is already used to treat metabolic disorders, we know it should be no problem to use it for other purposes.
Doesn't this sound like the kind of news you see on the front page of every paper?
The drug also has no patent, which means it could be produced for bargain basement prices in comparison to what drug companies research and develop.
Scientists tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body where it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but left healthy cells alone. Rats plump with tumors shrank when they were fed water supplemented with DCA.
Again, this seems like it should be at the top of the nightly news, right?
Cancer cells don't use the little power stations found in most human cells - the mitochondria. Instead, they use glycolysis, which is less effective and more wasteful.
Doctors have long believed the reason for this is because the mitochondria were damaged somehow. But, it turns out the mitochondria were just dormant, and DCA starts them back up again.
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.
Here's the big catch. Pharmaceutical companies probably won't invest in research into DCA because they won't profit from it. It's easy to make, unpatented and could be added to drinking water. Imagine, Gatorade with cancer control.
So, the groundwork will have to be done at universities and independently funded laboratories. But, how are they supposed to drum up support if the media aren't even talking about it?
All I can do is write this and hope Google News picks it up. In the meantime, tell everyone you know and do your own research.
PLEASE READ THE EDITOR'S NOTE AT THE TOP OF THIS COLUMN, AND PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINKS TO OTHER DCA RESOURCES LISTED DIRECTLY UNDER THIS COLUMN."
- afroboi rated 12 months ago
- From the page: "Scientists may have cured cancer last week.
Yep.
So, why haven't the media picked up on it?
Here's the deal. Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada found a cheap and easy to produce drug that kills almost all cancers. The drug is dichloroacetate, and since it is already used to treat metabolic disorders, we know it should be no problem to use it for other purposes.
Doesn't this sound like the kind of news you see on the front page of every paper?
The drug also has no patent, which means it could be produced for bargain basement prices in comparison to what drug companies research and develop.
Scientists tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body where it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but left healthy cells alone. Rats plump with tumors shrank when they were fed water supplemented with DCA.
Again, this seems like it should be at the top of the nightly news, right?"
- Lokito rated 16 months ago
- Do people even bother re-writing columns at all when they repost them on their website?
 bsm117532 rated 18 months ago- Be very careful with this. The story has all the right features for viral propagation of the meme, but unfortunately, it may all be bogus. Read the following before getting too excited.
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2007/03/checking_in_with_the_dca_s ite.php#more
- Alison-K rated 19 months ago
- Interesting, but I have my doubts. That's as much as I think there is to say.
- clockwork21a2 rated 18 months ago
- Studies of the TCE metabolites dichloroacetic acid (DCA) , trichloroacetic acid (TCA) , and chloral hydrate suggest that both DCA and TCA are involved in TCE-induced liver tumorigenesis and that many DCA effects are consistent with conditions that increase the risk of liver cancer in humans. Environ Health Perspect. 2006 Sep;114(9):1457-63
Trichloroethylene is a used as a solvent for cleaning metal parts. Drinking or breathing trichloroethylene may cause nervous system effects, liver and lung damage, abnormal heartbeat, coma, and possibly death.
- thufth rated 18 months ago
- This sounds fishy...ah well. If they've really invented a cure for cancer, I'm definitely not against it. Someone should really look into this.
- kriz1 rated 19 months ago
- From the page: "Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice"
http://jint3i.stumbleupon.com/
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