Scientists find cure for cancer..but no one takes notice?

roguey

http://hubpages.com/hub/Scientists_cure_cancer__but_no_one_takes_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?

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.

Biggins

I'm having flashbacks! I must be!!!

W.Shakes-Beer

There was a bit of notice in last nights thread about this in fairness.

KeithM89_old

Maybe theyll find a cure for Deja vu next...

CrackisWhack

I'm not sure about this tbh, Patent or no patent, if it really was an effective "cure" for cancer, pharma companies could make money off it.

General General

in after the lock?

Orion

Aren't mitochondrias the things that the Force resides in? Looks like Obi Wan was right!

Solnskaya

At a very posh dinner party about 3 years ago I was talking to a senior researcher at a major pharma organisation. The conversation turned to a cure for cancer, and his answer was " sure we found that years ago, but there's no money to be made from that, we concentrate on stabilising and prolonging life, thats where the moneys at".
I was somwhat surprised, but not totally. Big pharma is about big money, doing good is not even secondary, its not even on the radar, "it's about the cash, stupid".

Mrmoe

Maybe theyll find a cure for Deja vu next...

bonerm

Macros42 wrote: »

Aren't mitochondrias the things that the Force resides in? Looks like Obi Wan was right!

midichlorians

Now lets never speak of them again.

AnonoBoy

Ah that's great.

Sure we've sorted cancer.

Good ol' boards.ie

Oranage2

I'm having flashbacks! I must be!!!

OutlawPete

Wtf! How can a four year old story be mistaken for a current one, twice .. in the same week?

Biggins

Biggins wrote: »

I'm having flashbacks! I must be!!!

Oranage2 wrote: »

I'm having flashbacks! I must be!!!

:eek:

You too!

ArtSmart

legit, according to New Scientist magazine. though whether New Scientist is legit is another deal altogether...


http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10971-cheap-safe-drug-kills-most-cancers.html


written in 2007? wow

edit. the more reputable Nature article.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100512/full/news.2010.236.html

roguey

Sheeeeeet, my bad people guess i should've done a search first

Sorry folks, mods close the thread or whatever