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Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers
New Scientist ^
| 1/17/06
| Andy Coghlan
Posted on 01/17/2007 5:28:53 PM PST by LibWhacker
It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their immortality. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.
It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.
Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and his colleagues tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body and found that it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but not healthy cells. Tumours in rats deliberately infected with human cancer also shrank drastically when they were fed DCA-laced water for several weeks.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cancerdrug; cancers; cheap; dca; dichloroacetate; drug; health; healthcare; kills; prescriptiondrugs; wonderdrugs
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To: LibWhacker
Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers Sounds like Laetrile. How did that work out, anyway?
To: LibWhacker
How-cool-is-this bump!
However, I don't plan to start smoking again. After finally kicking the damn things I just don't want to start again.
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posted on
01/20/2007 9:50:41 AM PST
by
LibKill
(ENOUGH! Take the warning labels off everything and let Saint Darwin do his job.)
To: LibWhacker
To: MHGinTN
I don't know much about that - but after reading the radon report, I optimized my chances by starting smoking - only 3-4 a day.
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posted on
01/20/2007 11:31:16 AM PST
by
spanalot
To: LibWhacker; All
If you would like up-to-date information on any plans for clinical trials of DCA in patients with cancer, or would like to donate towards a fund for such trials, please visit the site set up by the University of Alberta and the Alberta Cancer Board.
DCA RESEARCH INFORMATION
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posted on
02/01/2007 12:26:18 PM PST
by
Michael_Michaelangelo
(The best theory is not ipso facto a good theory.)
To: biff
I think somewhere back in to cobweb section of my brain I remember the American medical industry makes $20 billion a year off cancer. Now, can they afford to have a cheap cure? Chemo, radiation, and surgery would dwindle.
and the medical insurance giants will fight for it. they'll keep the same premiums but save a TON by not having to pay out on cancer treatment.
smart gov't should be for it too. huge savings in payout in medicare and disability.
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02/01/2007 12:36:45 PM PST
by
absolootezer0
(stop repeat offenders - don't re-elect them!)
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