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Cure for Cancer Found But No One is Talking

 
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Wow, and this is 3 years old, never heard about it!




January 31st, 2007 at 8:34 am
Cure for Cancer Found But No One is Talking
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A $2 per serving cancer cure has been found by Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada yet most of the media world is silent.. Since this is not a patentable drug from a major drug company with little profit potential, it has received very little coverage.

Scientists may have cured cancer last week. So, why haven’t the media picked up on it?

Here’s the deal. Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada found a cheap and easy to produce drug that kills almost all cancers. The drug is dichloroacetate, and since it is already used to treat metabolic disorders, we know it should be no problem to use it for other purposes.

Doesn’t this sound like the kind of news you see on the front page of every paper?

The drug also has no patent, which means it could be produced for bargain basement prices in comparison to what drug companies research and develop.

Scientists tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body where it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but left healthy cells alone. Rats plump with tumors shrank when they were fed water supplemented with DCA.

Again, this seems like it should be at the top of the nightly news, right?

Cancer cells don’t use the little power stations found in most human cells – the mitochondria. Instead, they use glycolysis, which is less effective and more wasteful.

Doctors have long believed the reason for this is because the mitochondria were damaged somehow. But, it turns out the mitochondria were just dormant, and DCA starts them back up again.
[link to www.impactlab.com]
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never heard about it cause they can't make money off it
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New Scientist has received an unprecedented amount of interest in this story from readers. 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. We will also follow events closely and will report any progress as it happens.

[link to www.newscientist.com]

University of Alberta and the Alberta Cancer Board

[link to www.depmed.ualberta.ca]
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Interesting Wiki article about Dichloroacetic Acid here:

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

A study published in January 2007 by researchers at the University of Alberta, testing DCA on in vitro cancer cell lines and a rat model, found that DCA restored mitochondrial function, thus restoring apoptosis, killing cancer cells in vitro, and shrinking the tumors in the rats.

These results received extensive media attention, beginning with an article in New Scientist titled "Cheap, ‘safe’ drug kills most cancers". Subsequently, the American Cancer Society and other medical organizations have received a large volume of public interest and questions regarding DCA. Reports have since pointed out that although the study results are promising, no formal clinical trials in humans with cancer have yet been conducted in the USA and are not yet final in Canada, emphasizing the need for caution in interpreting the preliminary results.
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No one cares..... Next!!
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No one cares..... Next!!
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Good ol' U of A
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bsflag This is a band aid and not a "cure" for cancer, which OFTEN (almost always) involves infections that must be treated in order to avoid further oxidative stress and DNA damage. Cancer always comes back later if the infection(s) remain in the body. Different cancers have different infections.

So no, this is not a cure for cancer (and I've seen people be cured of their cancer so this is just pharma crap to me). whatever
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This evil country won't allow this type of information to be disseminated to the public because it might curb the obscene profits the drug companies are making off treatments that don't really work. If the big boys can't make tons of money it won't ever make it to market.

Sad and pathetic, but that's the way it is
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Unfortunately its not that simple it can also kill you
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Any human trials on it yet?

That is the key. What does human use show?
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bump
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never heard about it cause they can't make money off it
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Exactly.

Pharmaceutical companies aren't interested in cures.
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Unfortunately its not that simple it can also kill you
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So can chemo.
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Unfortunately its not that simple it can also kill you


So can chemo.
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But not natural meds like reishi and resveratrol. whatever
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DCA is an organic compound, and a byproduct of TCE (trichloroethylene), a chemical that has been a concern in the development of cancer. In January 2007, researchers at the University of Alberta published a study in the journal Cancer Cell suggesting that DCA showed promise in shrinking tumors in lab rats as well as inhibiting growth of cultured human cancer cells. They hypothesized that DCA may be able to change cancer cells back to normal ones by switching them from the aberrant energy pathways they rely on to those used by normal cells.

The most important thing you should know about DCA is that it hasn't yet been tested in humans, and we don't even know if it is safe, much less effective as a cancer treatment. Despite all the hype and the researchers' assertions that DCA may be able to make an easy transition from the laboratory to the clinic, I'm skeptical. In his blog on the subject, Len Lichtenfeld, M.D., deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, notes that, "Nothing in translation from the (lab) bench to the bedside is easy." Dr. Lichtenfeld also points out that although reports about DCA have claimed that it is safe, that is not really the case. It has been shown to have potentially dangerous side effects when used for other non-cancer-related conditions. In fact, when added to drinking water, DCA caused liver cancer in laboratory mice.





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