Cure for cancer...

[Grrrl]

...passed up because there is no money in it for the big companies...

http://hubpages.com/hub/Scientists_cure ... kes_notice

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?

[weedguru_animal]

What about the governments???And if someone has cancer, can they not suggest this treatment to the NHS (Uk for example) doctors who treat them??? I suppose that its more awful than I thought, i mean that its not just a military-industrial complex which runs and owns governments, its actually a pharmaceutical-military-industrial collection of companies who own the government as their very own shop in which those governed are forced to use for their shopping or go private...So the government owners, dictate what the NHS uses, how much it costs and its in their interests, as a corporation, to maximize profits, not drive down the cost of health care. A perfect set-up really, for those at the top.

[Ikku]

This is not a 100% cure for cancer. In some cases under hypoxic conditions it actually enhances tumor growth. I will try to find the journal paper about it.