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The DCA thing was posted here, as far as I can tell, twice last month and as early as January, 2007.

The Wikipedia entry seems to tell the story: Dichloroacetic acid

There have been a few trials of this, though, not as of a couple years ago, clinical, double-blind trials. It seems to work in a very small number of people. It seems to work somewhat in another small number of people. It seems to work for a while in another small group of people before the cancer rebounds and kills them (my dad, for instance). The theory sounds good (reactivating mitochondria in cancer cells so that the mitochondria-controlled apoptotic mechanisms can kick in and kill the cancer cell), but there are many types of cancer in many types of tissue and even if mitochondria can be reactivated there is no guarantee that they will behave in a transformed cell as they should behave in a normal cell that is undergoing some insult that could result in its transformation into a cancerous cell.

DCA has never been demonstrated to be a cancer cure, only that some people with some types of cancer using it have experienced some degree of tumor regression, complete remission being the rarest outcome of all.

Sorry to see that about your dad.

Maybe something will come of it. I think the problem here was that someone chose to go with a sensational claim for an untested chemical. Untested for cancer treatment, that is.