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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.
I'd wait for Hv's take on this Marci. I'm not sure it's true and I think it's old news anyway. Isn't it nice to be able to bring these things here to James?
I'd wait for Hv's take on this Marci. I'm not sure it's true and I think it's old news anyway. Isn't it nice to be able to bring these things here to James?
Yes, it is old news that has been covered before:
http://curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1513395#i
The original post looks like a simple, clever advertising ploy to me.
This is from the link in Gina's post, It doesn't say anything about Mitochondria being cancer fighting cells.
The comment was not in the link, it was in the bottom of the post where they are discussing the DCA:
"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."
Certainly interesting, but I am skeptical of the claim's legitimacy.
The first thing I noticed was how the article referred to mitochondria as a cancer fighting cell. Mitochondria aren't cells at all.
Very good point. I did not read the hype below the explanation well until you mentioned this. Good catch.
The sales article clearly was not written by a researcher and was not actually based on any research considering how many basic errors were made.
Canadian researchers find a simple cure for cancer, but major pharmaceutical companies are not interested.
I am not surprised, but not simply because it is a cure. First of all according to the article above they said it has only been used in cell cultures and mice. This does not mean it will do the same in the human body. More importantly are a few incorrect statements they are making in their explanation.
First of all they claim the cells in the center of the tumor are starved of oxygen, which causes them to switch to glycolysis to survive. This is COMPLETE malarky! The cells on the surface of a malignant tumor are just as malignant as the cells in the center of the tumor. In addition, they are totally ignoring the angiogenesis (blood vessel formation) stimulated by compounds such as vascular endothelial growth factor. The tumor does this to provide a source of glucose to feed on and as a means to send out angiogenesis inhibitors to suppress their competition. But the glucose it feeds on is in the same blood coming through those blood vessels carrying oxygen. In other words if those cells in the center are feeding on glucose then this means there are blood vessels providing oxygen rich blood to these same cells. So their hypothesis is bogus.
The second bogus claim they make is that the lactic acid generated by the glycolysis breaks down the tissues allowing the cancer cells to spread. This is just more alkalinizing propaganda. Lactic acid has NOTHING to do with this. Instead, cancer cells use an enzyme called hyaluronidase to metastasize. Hyaluronidase breaks down a substance called hyaluronic acid (HA). HA is what "cements" our cells together. So think of HA as being the wall that keeps the cancer cells contained. Hyaluronidase would be the sledge hammer that smashes the wall allowing the cancer cells to escape. This is why in my Cancer write up I include myrrh in the formula since it is a hyaluronidase inhibitor.
If lactic acid caused the breakdown of tissues then we would not have much tissue left considering how much lactic acid is generated by the flora in the mouth, colon, vagina, skin and nasal cavity. Then there is all the lactate built up in the blood during strenuous activity. How do they explain there being anything left of marathon runners after finishing a race since all that lactate should be breaking their tissues down?
If they really want to be taken seriously about dichloroacetate (DCA) being effective for cancer then they really need to stop making up their own version of facts about cancer. Making stuff up about how cancer forms and spreads simply calls all of their other claims in to question.
