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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.

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 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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Hmm its a misleading headline, because it contradicts itself in the first line

Scientists may have cured cancer last week.
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But think of it as you wish :)
 
Well, for various reasons I'm of the opinion that mainstream medicine with regards to cancer treatment is little more than a massive money-making racket, and so this article doesn't really surprise me. (Though I would like to see more about these tests and how they were done.)
 
Razer0 said:
Hmm its a misleading headline, because it contradicts itself in the first line



But think of it as you wish :)
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Did you have a look at the interview by CNN on the link provided ?
This would be brilliant news, once the testing is all complete.
 
Well to tell you the truth, I think healing is all in the mind.

Lets take for example.. you cut your hand, just a minor cut but enough so that it bleeds. Your body will of course heal itself in due time

Cancer on the other hand (which develops in your body - so its a body healing problem/process (my wording is bad :( )) is obviously more difficult for it. So I feel by mentally aiding it, a person could cure their own cancer with it obviously being much easier at beginning stages.

But thats my opinion anyway ;)

Have you seen this?
propyl alcohol : accumulates in your liver. Adult flukes
occupy the liver, but eggs and other stages circulate and
grow everywhere around your body, producing excessive
amounts of powerful cell growth hormones, forcing your
organ cells to divide. This is exactly what our Medical
science calls cancer. 100% of cancer patients have propyl
alcohol in their bodies.
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So what if those people didnt have propyl alcohol to start with?
 
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I doubt it media won;t pick up on it if it were 100% proven etc. i mean if there was a cure for aids but it was free(which chances are it will be) someone will make it even if the profit is low. of cause existing drug producers will not be the first to do it
 
krycor said:
I doubt it media won;t pick up on it if it were 100% proven etc. i mean if there was a cure for aids but it was free(which chances are it will be) someone will make it even if the profit is low. of cause existing drug producers will not be the first to do it
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I agree entirely, i read about these tests in the Economist at least a month ago, the media isn't ignoring anything. This article appears to be inflationist, conspiracist bull**** to me. Drug trials take the better part of a decade to complete, the fact that it cures cancer from rats would normally mean that we are at best 3 years away from being able to purchase it and more likely 5. The only difference is that it is already a licensed drug (albeit for other disorders) so we might see it being prescribed for cancer sooner, but i would imagine the human trials will still be quite lengthy
 
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