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Scientists Cure Cancer, But No One Takes Notice
Money Trends Research ^

Posted on 03/20/2012 6:26:50 PM PDT by CactusCarlos

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 recently cured cancer, yet there is but little ripple in the news or on TV. It is a simple technique using a very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is currently used to treat metabolic disorders, so there is no concern of side effects or other long term effects.

The 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.

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Canadian scientists tested dichloroacetate (DCA) on human 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, but why are the major drug companies not involved, or the media not interested in this find?

In human cells there is a natural cancer fighting organelle, the mitochondria, but it needs to be triggered in order to be effective. Scientists used to think that the mitochondria of cancerous cells were damaged and thus ineffective. They used to focus on glycolysis, which is less effective in fighting cancer and wasteful. The drug manufacturers focused on the glycolysis method to fight cancer. DCA treatment on the other hand doesn’t rely on glycolysis but instead on reactivating the mitochondria; which allows the cell to die and preventing the cancer from spreading.

This reactivation is a process called apoptosis. You see, mitochondria contain an all-too-important self-destruct button that cannot 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 allow them to 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, and without a patent they cannot make money. They’re currently making fortunes with their AIDS patent. Since the pharmaceutical companies won’t develop DCA drugs, independent laboratories should start researching DCA more to confirm all of the above findings and begin producing drugs. All of 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.

This article hopes to raise more awareness of dichloroacetate, and to hopefully inspire some independent companies and small startups to pick up on this idea and begin producing life-saving drugs… because the big companies won’t be touching it for a long time.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: cancer; dca; dichloroacetate; health; medicine
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Thoughts?
1 posted on 03/20/2012 6:26:57 PM PDT by CactusCarlos
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To: CactusCarlos

BS!


2 posted on 03/20/2012 6:30:13 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: CactusCarlos

Does it help with feline leukemia?

3 posted on 03/20/2012 6:30:42 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("And the public gets what the public wants" -- The Jam)
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To: CactusCarlos

If I had cancer right now, I’d try it before the treatments I’ve seen


4 posted on 03/20/2012 6:32:07 PM PDT by Figment
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Pharmaceutical companies are not investing in this research because DCA method cannot be patented, and without a patent they cannot make money.

Lumber can't be patented, but people still make money providing it to those who want it.

5 posted on 03/20/2012 6:34:03 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: CactusCarlos

I’ve always kept a tin foil hat in my back pocket for the theory that they’ve long discovered how to wipe cancer out but for the money wrt fundraising and grants for research etc. For me, I’d love to believe that this is available now given every time I turn around someone I know is diagnosed with some form of the big “C”.

I lost my father to it back in 2007 and there’s nothing I’d love more than for my kids to know their grandpa that much better. He was truly a great man.


6 posted on 03/20/2012 6:34:46 PM PDT by RedCell (Honor thy Father (9/6/07) - Semper Fi / "...it is their duty, to throw off such government...")
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The drug doesn’t require a patent, so anyone can employ it widely and cheaply compared to the costly cancer drugs

I work for a huge bioPharma and this doesn't surprise me AT ALL, even if that sounds like that slob Michael Moore.

More and more for health stuff I'm listening to hippies, and they're not ALL crazy.

This is so weird.

7 posted on 03/20/2012 6:35:18 PM PDT by gaijin
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In human cells there is a natural cancer fighting organelle, the mitochondria, but it needs to be triggered in order to be effective.............

The above is pretty ridiculous, who ever wrote this really needs to take a high school biology course

8 posted on 03/20/2012 6:36:21 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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Lumber can't be patented, but people still make money providing it to those who want it.

Now you've done it. Any day now some tree is going to come along and file a lawsuit.

9 posted on 03/20/2012 6:39:00 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: CactusCarlos

There is an Italian doctor who found a cure for cancer. No money in it. Baking soda, all cancers are fungi. Curable with baking soda.


10 posted on 03/20/2012 6:42:42 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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The drug manufacturers focused on the glycolysis method to fight cancer.

WHAT?

This reactivation [of the cell cycle] is a process called apoptosis.

Uhh.....that....is....wrong.

Doesn't mean the point of the article is wrong, but these two points (and some others) is wrong.

11 posted on 03/20/2012 6:43:32 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: CactusCarlos
Assuming an aspiring scientist finds a cure for cancer, where's the money in it for the drug companies? They stand to make more profit treating an illness than curing it; a captive audience so to speak. They need diseases to treat with their products, not a cure.
12 posted on 03/20/2012 6:44:11 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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“In 2010, it was found that for human colorectal tumours grown in mice, under hypoxic conditions, DCA decreased rather than increased apoptosis, resulting in enhanced growth of the tumours.

“These findings suggest that at least in some cancer types DCA treatment could be detrimental to patient health, highlighting the need for further testing before it can be considered a safe and effective cancer treatment.”

“At sustained, higher doses(generally 25 mg/kg/day taken orally, or greater), there is increased risk of several reversible toxicities, especially peripheral neuropathy, neurotoxicity, and gait disturbance. Studies have also shown that it can be carcinogenic at high doses.”


13 posted on 03/20/2012 6:44:25 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Mars was destroyed with weapons from the future. There, does that make you feel any better?)
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Thoughts?

Yeah. Why are you posting something that was posted here last May?

14 posted on 03/20/2012 6:45:16 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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cancers are fungi.

Uh, no. In no way.

15 posted on 03/20/2012 6:48:33 PM PDT by Melas (u)
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To: CactusCarlos

http://www.thedcasite.com/

First of all, the information about DCA as a possible treatment for cancer has been known for a number of years.

Secondly, you don’t need to have big pharma invest in a treatment in order for it to be viable. Go to this site and find out how patients are taking control of their own treatments using DCA.


16 posted on 03/20/2012 6:49:21 PM PDT by Madam Theophilus
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To: gaijin

In this age of government death panels and conflicting claims you must become an educated patient.

I recently lost a dear relative to cancer. Medicare refused to pay for some of the life extending drugs that she needed. Luckily, she had a rich boyfriend who would do anything for her.

Medicare would not even pay for her chemo because, at 75, they assessed that her survival did not warrant the expense.

Had it been me, I would have purchased the chemo drug as a lab grade organic chemical and dosed myself.

Obama’s Healthcare Deform is how he intends to kill off us Kulaks. No NKVD necessary; they just squeeze off the funds for areas of the country and demographics that don’t vote his way.

Don’t go quietly.


17 posted on 03/20/2012 6:49:56 PM PDT by darth
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To: CactusCarlos

Of course the pharm companies are not interested, there is no money in it. But if the oncologists know about it, it will be used.


18 posted on 03/20/2012 6:53:14 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
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BS Cancer is not a fungi. It is your own body’s cells growing out of control.


19 posted on 03/20/2012 6:55:53 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
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BS Cancer is not a fungi. It is your own body’s cells mutated and growing out of control.


20 posted on 03/20/2012 6:56:11 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
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