Dichloroacetate, that Canadian cancer cure miracle drug is still kicking..

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and still being completely ignored by the media. I remember the story from January, and haven't really heard a peep until I Googled it tonight. For anyone else wondering why the cure for cancer isn't being reported...

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More On Dichloroacetate, Potential Cancer Cure
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Science, Drugs

We’ve written about dichloroacetate before, but I thought I’d point it out again because it’s a wonder why we’re not hearing about it the media at large.

From the University of Alberta:

DCA is an odourless, colourless, inexpensive, relatively non-toxic, small molecule. And researchers at the University of Alberta believe it may soon be used as an effective treatment for many forms of cancer.

Dr. Evangelos Michelakis, a professor at the U of A Department of Medicine, has shown that dichloroacetate (DCA) causes regression in several cancers, including lung, breast, and brain tumors.

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Until recently, researchers believed that cancer-affected mitochondria are permanently damaged and that this damage is the result, not the cause, of the cancer. But Michelakis, a cardiologist, questioned this belief and began testing DCA, which activates a critical mitochondrial enzyme, as a way to “revive” cancer-affected mitochondria.

http://donklephant.com/2007/05/14/more-on-dichloroacetate-potential-cancer-cure/

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1. Trials, they hope, will start soon and finish this year.

...funding and govt approval permitting.

The University of Alberta\u2019s DCA Research Team is set to launch clinical trials on humans in the spring of 2007 pending government approval. Knowing that thousands of cancer patients die weekly while waiting for a cure, Dr. Michelakis and his team are working at accelerated speed, condensing research that usually takes years into months. Fundraisers at the University of Alberta are determined to raise the money to allow this next phase of research to begin. Once Health Canada grants formal approval, the University of Alberta\u2019s Research Team will begin testing DCA on patients living with cancer. Results with regards to the safety and efficacy of treatment should be known late this year.

http://www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca/

Knock on wood. It will be good for people to know either way if it is effective, but let's hope the result is in the "yes" category.

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2. Because it's not a cure for cancer? Because the researcher cited in this

piece doesn't even claim that it is? Because there have been no trials done? Is that enough reasons?

There's lots of stuff out there on the "Internets..." even "cures" for cancer.

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3. Well, I'm not a doctor, but It does cure cancer in rats

It shrinks the tumors to nothing. What would you call that?