Apparently the DCA cannot be patented, and so they are having trouble coming up with funding for the clinical trials.
This is absolute bullshit! The Canadian Cancer Society is not a drug company! It has many millions of dollars as well as other related charities. They can afford to fund the clinical trials.
Would think that government agencies/insurance companies/
state sponsored clinics would want to fund the studies.
There is a category of drugs called “orphan” drugs which
cannot be patented but the developer is granted very long
marketing times. I believe someone will step up if the
chemical agent proves to be somewhat successful.
It would be much less expensive than other anticancer agents,
and in this era of hospitals eating their profits due to
the cost of paying for costly drugs, the trials might
be sponsored big time.