Cure For Cancer?

[Xombie3000]

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 cured cancer last week, yet there is a little ripple in the news or in TV. It is a simple technique using very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is currently used to treat metabolic disorders. So, there is no concern of side effects or about their long term effects.


This 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.


Canadian scientists tested this dichloroacetate (DCA) on human’s 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, why the major drug companies are not involved? Or the Media interested in this find?


In human bodies there is a natural cancer fighting human cell, the mitochondria, but they need to be triggered to be effective. Scientists used to think that these mitochondria cells were damaged and thus ineffective against cancer. So they used to focus on glycolysis, which is less effective in curing cancer and more wasteful. The drug manufacturers focused on this glycolysis method to fight cancer. This DCA on the other hand doesn’t rely on glycolysis instead on mitochondria; it triggers the mitochondria which in turn fights the cancer cells.


The side effect of this is it also reactivates a process called apoptosis. You see, mitochondria contain an all-too-important self-destruct button that can't 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 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, without a patent they can’t make money, like they are doing now with their AIDS Patent. Since the pharmaceutical companies won’t develop this, the article says other independent laboratories should start producing this drug and do more research to confirm all the above findings and produce drugs. All 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.


You can access the original research for this cancer here.


This article wants to raise awareness for this study, hope some independent companies and small startup will pick up this idea and produce these drugs, because the big companies won’t touch it for a long time.

What do you guys think? Link to website here: http://hubpages.com/hub/Scientists_cure_cancer__but_no_one_takes_notice

 

[siffert]

:tinhat:there will never be a cure for cancer, same as there will never be free fuel

 

[Connor Macleod]

I'm quite skeptical, because if this were true, it would be one of, if not the greatest story in human history. THE CURE FOR CANCER! Every media outlet on the planet would go nuts to report this. I wish it to be true, but I have my doubts.

 

[Legzman]

This 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.

that explains why they aren't interested in the cure. They won't make any money off their overpriced forms of medication.

 

[funkyman]

Cancer is not one disease, but many, that makes it so hard to cure, but I'm absolutely sure there will be cure for most of the cancers quite soon. One of the biggest problems is that cancer is not only disease, but it is also business and that is slowing down research, especially if it is something cheap, widely available. There are many people in the world who would kill for money and there is no reason not to believe that such people are also in cancer business. Good thing is that also these people and they relatives may get cancer and that may change their mind if money are really more valuable than life.

 

[bustybbwlover]

theoretically the ultimate cure for cancer (and all diseases) would be nanotech based but that's a ways off, if it ever comes to be

 

[Johan]

You can't one miracle cure for all cancers : Every cancer is different from any other.

 

[Xombie3000]

It's interesting to note that while this is out, there is no word from any media sockets. I would at least thought about someone somewhere mentioning this to see if it even works or not. While not all cancer is the same, you would think there would be more testing in the field as to patients with different kinds of cancers.

 

[Nester6]

theoretically the ultimate cure for cancer (and all diseases) would be nanotech based but that's a ways off, if it ever comes to be

Monoclonal antibodies show promise, however so many studies are duplicated that progress is never made. The answer is in the rainforest as so many plants have yet to be studied for new treatments. How can we place a man on the moon in 1969, and bring him back, yet new cancer treatments that improve the length and quality of life have been esentially the same for the past 44 years?

 

[STDiva]

Abstinence. Prevention is the way to go. Did we learn nothing from aids?