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 foo2you rated 17 months ago - From the page: " Back | Home
Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice
By: David McRaney
Posted: 1/23/07
EDITORS NOTE:
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 ...
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- MeJustJohn rated 7 days ago
- This is wacked!! If there were a cure and it was this simple, why is it not harolded? This sounds like the simple cure for snakebite given by God Himself to the Israelites. "Moses, make an image of a snake in brass and tack it to your staff and tell the people that if they look at it they will be healed, otherwise they will die." and many of the people said, "Ya'rite, and keeled over dead, while all those who looked lived. Because it was too easy they didn't believe.
- Analekto rated 9 days ago
- Very interesting article about cancer cure. I wonder if it's true though. IMO the "free" scientific community (i.e universities, free labs etc.) should not be underestimated. If it is really effective or seem to be working the formula will be passed on worldwide for further research and a better final product. (At which point the sharks will jump in ;))
- bobbyj10 rated 6 months ago
- i don't believe it
- BritishRCuming rated 4 weeks ago
- "a "CANCER CURE" is not as profitable as the current therapies that keep patients sick and in the hospital for years."
Exactly... sad really.
- afroboi rated 5 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?
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."
- dodgecharger rated 8 months ago
- The government should probably be dumping lots of money into this cancer cure. Medical R&D is one thing that should be funded by the government, because free market capitalism fails big-time in this instance.
- GNONET rated 9 months ago
- a "CANCER CURE" is not as profitable as the current therapies that keep patients sick and in the hospital for years.
- wellnessjunction rated 6 months ago
- Very interesting article on a possible cancer cure.
- zjs102 rated 6 months ago
- Very interesting article on a possible cancer cure
- pixdude rated 9 months ago
- The argument that "Drug companies can't patent DCA so there is no money in it." doesn't hold water. When a drug falls out of patent protection, it is common practice for the drug companies to move a molecule and patent the drug under a different name - sorta a slimy practice that. Big Pharma are (is?) no saints and for that reason I'm can't believe that would ignore the money making potential of anything.
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