Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice

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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.

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