Lab Disaster May Lead to New Cancer Drug

I have lung cancer. I have ordered injectable Vitamin C from a vet site. Supposedly that has had an effect on the cancer cells, at least in one study. Can't hurt and might help. Good luck to you and your husband. Also check out dicholoroacetate (DCA). Some really good info on that, but I can't find out how to get it.

Carolyn

41 posted on 02/05/2007 5:37:42 AM PST by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)

I had no idea that you were a cancer victim.

I am so sorry and will add you to our prayer list.

Maria

42 posted on 02/05/2007 6:13:26 AM PST by Coldwater Creek (The TERRORIST are the ones who won the midterm elections!)

She was testing a compound called a PPAR-gamma modulator. It would never normally have been thought of as a cancer drug, or in fact a drug of any kind.

My husband has stage four internal melanoma. We will try anything!!

I'm sorry to learn of your desperation. As Shakespeare put it, "Desperate ills are by desperate measures cured. Or not at all."
But as to the issue raised by the article: the article does not say that the compound in question is a controlled substance. It says that it killed cancer cells but did not do readily observable injury to mice. You wouldn't know how much of it it would take to do any good, and you wouldn't know how much of it you could take without doing even worse damage to the patient than doing nothing. And you don't know if the stuff would be beneficial if injected, or if taken orally.
But if it isn't a controlled substance, it might be possible to attempt to buy some of it legally. And frankly, in the absence of extrodinary precautions in its manufacture you would expect the people who produce it to be getting some level of the stuff (however small) into their bodies. It would be interesting to know what quantities it is produced in, and how careful they are about ingesting the stuff.
I am not a doctor, and I don't even play one on TV. Your mileage may vary.

43 posted on 02/05/2007 6:28:57 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)

You asked about accidental discoveries.

This website describes a number of innovations that were accidental, e.g., vulcanization of rubber, post-it notes:

http://f.dominodeveloper.net/bsniego/sniegocki2.nsf/htdocs/inventions.htm

They don't mention White-out though. It was developed by a legal secratary who was also an artist. She began using white tempera paint to cover mistakes. She made millions. Her son became one of the Monkees.

44 posted on 02/05/2007 6:37:33 AM PST by ladyjane

Thank you and God bless--

Carolyn

45 posted on 02/05/2007 6:39:24 AM PST by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)

To: mariabush; trussell

Prayers for your husband and you also.

46 posted on 02/05/2007 6:42:55 AM PST by sweetiepiezer

To: sweetiepiezer

47 posted on 02/05/2007 6:57:09 AM PST by Coldwater Creek (The TERRORIST are the ones who won the midterm elections!)

which were originally derived from Pacific yew trees.

I seem to recall that. The Pharmeceutical company planted huge numbers of seedlings of an endangered yew species, and then the greenies sued to keep them from using the trees.

48 posted on 02/05/2007 3:46:57 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)

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