Posted on 03/20/2012 6:26:50 PM PDT by CactusCarlos
Canadian researchers find a simple cure for cancer, but major pharmaceutical companies are not interested.
Researchers at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada have recently cured cancer, yet there is but little ripple in the news or on TV. It is a simple technique using a very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is currently used to treat metabolic disorders, so there is no concern of side effects or other long term effects.
The drug doesn’t require a patent, so anyone can employ it widely and cheaply compared to the costly cancer drugs produced by major pharmaceutical companies.
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Canadian scientists tested dichloroacetate (DCA) on human cells; it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells and left the healthy cells alone. It was tested on rats inflicted with severe tumors; their cells shrank when they were fed with water supplemented with DCA. The drug is widely available and the technique is easy to use, but why are the major drug companies not involved, or the media not interested in this find?
In human cells there is a natural cancer fighting organelle, the mitochondria, but it needs to be triggered in order to be effective. Scientists used to think that the mitochondria of cancerous cells were damaged and thus ineffective. They used to focus on glycolysis, which is less effective in fighting cancer and wasteful. The drug manufacturers focused on the glycolysis method to fight cancer. DCA treatment on the other hand doesn’t rely on glycolysis but instead on reactivating the mitochondria; which allows the cell to die and preventing the cancer from spreading.
This reactivation is a process called apoptosis. You see, mitochondria contain an all-too-important self-destruct button that cannot be pressed in cancer cells. Without it, tumors grow larger as cells refuse to be extinguished. Fully functioning mitochondria, thanks to DCA, can once again allow them to die.
With glycolysis turned off, the body produces less lactic acid, so the bad tissue around cancer cells doesn’t break down and seed new tumors.
Pharmaceutical companies are not investing in this research because DCA method cannot be patented, and without a patent they cannot make money. They’re currently making fortunes with their AIDS patent. Since the pharmaceutical companies won’t develop DCA drugs, independent laboratories should start researching DCA more to confirm all of the above findings and begin producing drugs. All of the groundwork can be done in collaboration with the universities, who will be glad to assist in such research and can develop an effective drug for curing cancer.
This article hopes to raise more awareness of dichloroacetate, and to hopefully inspire some independent companies and small startups to pick up on this idea and begin producing life-saving drugs… because the big companies won’t be touching it for a long time.
—Lumber can’t be patented, but people still make money providing it to those who want it.—
Not as much.
It's called Capitalism. It happens every day.
LOL! Douglas, what a goofball.
Nice hearing from you, hb, it’s been a while!
Take care, FRiend. :)
The other therapy I mentioned is anti-angiogenic, depriving tumors of new blood supply by preventing the formation of new capillaries, etc. to the tumor. This is accomplished with a regimen of tetrathiomolybdate, which is faster acting and more stable than zinc, but which can also be used for the same purpose.
Progress is being made, sometimes in surprising ways.
The other therapy I mentioned is anti-angiogenic, depriving tumors of new blood supply by preventing the formation of new capillaries, etc. to the tumor. This is accomplished with a regimen of tetrathiomolybdate, which is faster acting and more stable than zinc, but which can also be used for the same purpose.
Progress is being made, sometimes in surprising ways.
A true cure for cancer lies with fhu.com and the Be Still excercise. Many have already been cured...this is because cancer is a spiritual disease, one that is caused by an out of control but suppressed irritable state. Scientist, as often is the case, are barking up the wrong tree.
Other than that, it’s a great idea. /sarc
You’re not crazy.
For instance, they have a treatment that is 80-95 percent totally effective against colon cancer.
Google “DFMO SULINDAC”
I know because a good friend of mine died from colon cancer, and I had internet-researched it before he died and found the clinical studies, but never was able to convince him to try it.
And even now, three years later, they keep dragging on and on the clinical studies, and more and more people die...
Very nice reply. What do you in your day job?
I didn’t write that article, I just googled it.
Have no idea how valid this is but was told today that THC injected into a tumor kills it. How about a petition asking for the legalization of hemp and it’s uses.
Studies find an aspirin a day can keep cancer at bay
http://news.yahoo.com/studies-aspirin-day-keep-cancer-bay-000306036.html
And today we get this about aspirins. Interesting.
Cannabinoids have been shown to inhibit tumor growth in some clinical trials, particularly brain tumors, but injecting it into a tumor to “kill” it sounds like misinterpretation or urban legend.
Here’s another piece of the puzzle (sorry, couldn’t resist): New uses for existing things are patentable. If someone found a way to cure cancer using duct tape, they could patent that use.
In fact, I think that’s exactly what happened with that drug used to treat thickened toenails. It was an existing drug, but a pharma found a new use, and they’re making bank on it.
This article is 100% garbage.
well, he has had success
This showed up on my other blog.
I asked a friend of mine who is an ICU nurse about it and she said she has known it to be used to fight cancer for certain types.
I suspect the “cure” for cancer will be genetic, it’ll be multi-variant, therefore semi-customized for the individual patient, and will involve either repairing individual genes or using genes from another species. There’s a lot of work going on along these lines, and some has reversed genetically inherited diseases. I don’t think “simple or easy” is a realistic possibility.
As far as the meme about drug company profits goes, even the most common substance has to be carefully administered and monitored, the disease has to be accurately diagnosed, and the patient has to be followed up for relapses. All of those activites generate revenue for the medical profession, so the profit of drug companies is not the sole market force involved. They’ll provide whatever substance is required, in much the same way as they’ve continued to provide Claritin since it went off prescription.
Treatment of cancer has advanced a great deal since my introduction to it via a loved one, and later on with a beloved dog. “Alternative” therapies are being researched and tested now, unlike then. There’s a place for both conventional medical science and herbal treatments, as well as dietary supplements.
I distrust genetic manipulation, maybe it’s a poor bias akin to the closed mindedness I encountered trying to help those I loved in any way possible back then, but I do. Some individuals inherit a propensity to develop certain cancers, true, but most of it is just cells gone wrong and not destroyed by the body’s natural defenses in time.
Live long enough, and you’ll develop cancer. It’s almost an inevitability.
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