[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“whether it is really safe or not when given to patients with cancer under a variety of circumstances.””

So,,,, say you’re 75, and the doc says you have 6 months to live, which really means 2 or 3 months, why not give it to these people with no other hope?

[BipolarBob]

So,,,, say you’re 75, and the doc says you have 6 months to live, which really means 2 or 3 months, why not give it to these people with no other hope?

Because a whole industries survival depends on NOT finding a cheap easy cure. The government is also involved with those big juicy tax dollars too. Also, if a company could make a super cancer that kills everyone unless you have the special anti-toxin, well that would make some politicians absolutely pee in their pants with glee. But maybe I'm a cynic.

[Agamemnon]

So,,,, say you’re 75, and the doc says you have 6 months to live, which really means 2 or 3 months, why not give it to these people with no other hope?

There's nothing stopping you from buying DCA yourself right now. Mix up your own brew and take it, if you are persuaded that it will help. Why would a patient who is motivated to do so wait in doing so?

But, you say, I want my doctor to prescribe it to me.

OK then. On the flip side why would a doctor take the professional risk entirely to himself to prescribe something which has not been clinically established as safe and effective only to have a patient or patient's surviving family possibly take him to court for prescribing something that failed in practice, which was also not demonstrated to be clinically safe and effective in the first place?

Back to the first point, if you are so confident that it will work, why not just take it yourself and as a patient (presumably with nothing else to lose by doing so) self administer?

Why must your decision to do so be someone else's professional liability for advising you to do so?

FReegards!