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actionjackson
Joined: 30 Dec 2007
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 Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 2:46 am Post subject: It looks like there is a cure for cancer |
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http://hubpages.com/hub/Scientists_cure_cancer__but_no_one_takes_notice
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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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sirius black
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I don't see why goverment labs can't or won't do it. The governent runs various, well equipped labs. The CDC has labs that are as good or better than anywhere you can find.
Not only this country but other countries have government owned labs that could do this. The fact that a patent is not needed or available makes it more attractive for the government I would think no?
I hope its true but I can't see why major drug companies not taking the ball has to be the end of it? Something just isn't right unless I'm missing something. |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| Big Pharma killed it. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 4:32 am Post subject: |
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According to Wikipedia:
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| On 24 September 2007, the Department of Medicine of Alberta University reported that after the trial funding was secured, both the Alberta local ethics committee and Health Canada approved the first DCA clinical trial for cancer.[31] This initial trial was relatively small with enrollment of up to 50 patients. The trial was completed in August 2009 [32]. In May 2010 the team published a press release [33] stating no conclusions could be drawn as a result of the trial. A paper describing the results was published [34] but not linked from the press release. Only five patients had been treated with the drug during the trial. As of May 2011 no results from the trial have been linked from the trial's ClinicalTrials.gov record or published, citing the trial identifier, in a journal indexed by Pubmed [35]. |
Calling it a "cure" is a bit premature.
It does deserve more research though, hopefully someone will be able to get some more trials done.
Also apparently:
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| DCA is non-patentable as a compound, though a patent has been filed for its use in cancer treatment. |
Someone is doing their best to profit from it. |
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red_devil
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 8:59 am Post subject: |
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| sirius black wrote: |
I don't see why goverment labs can't or won't do it. The governent runs various, well equipped labs. The CDC has labs that are as good or better than anywhere you can find.
Not only this country but other countries have government owned labs that could do this. The fact that a patent is not needed or available makes it more attractive for the government I would think no?
I hope its true but I can't see why major drug companies not taking the ball has to be the end of it? Something just isn't right unless I'm missing something. |
Because the healthcare and pharma lobbies are some of the most powerful and well funded in the world. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 10:46 am Post subject: |
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| 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. |
Since this basic drug is already available (according to the post), and if it really works, then doctors are free to begin using it now.
Doctors can use legal drugs for alternate treatments legally. No big pharmaceutical company can prevent it.
The problem with most magical cures is that, like magic, they are not real. |
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