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Possible Cure for Cancer
AtomSmasher:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10971&feedId=online-news_rss20
--- Quote ---It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.
It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.
Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and his colleagues tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body and found that it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but not healthy cells. Tumours in rats deliberately infected with human cancer also shrank drastically when they were fed DCA-laced water for several weeks.
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Absolutely amazing. It says the next step is to start human trials with cancer patients which will hopefully produce similar results as the lab tests. Its amazing that this cheap drug might actually cure all cancers or at least help lead scientists in the right direction to find a universal cure, it definately seems too good to be true.
billf:
Wow! Cheap and effective. Hope it turns out to work - that would be awesome.
FrizzleFried:
Let's hope the government or the drug companies don't stifle the progress in any way... drug companies make a ton of $$$ off cancer...as sick and disgusting as it is...decisions are made based on $$$ more than not.
Texasmame:
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on January 17, 2007, 05:45:14 pm ---Let's hope the government or the drug companies don't stifle the progress in any way... drug companies make a ton of $$$ off cancer...as sick and disgusting as it is...decisions are made based on $$$ more than not.
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That's why I'm sceptical as to there ever being a cure. Much like the fully electric car that can perform the same as a gas driven model, there's just to much money at stake to allow it. I pray to dog I'm wrong. :'(
jbox:
Wait, wasn't that the plot to Johnny Mnemonic? :dizzy:
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